VERSION UPDATING METHOD FOR FIRMWARE FOR ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To omit the work of the manufacture, transportation and exchange of a new ROM and to easily update the version of firmware program data. SOLUTION: A processor device 10 provided with firmware in a control part is provided with a CPU 12, a flash ROM 16 for storing the firmware program data and a program Pa for data transfer for transferring the program data, a notebook personal computer or the like is connected through RS-232C 11 and the program data of a new version are transferred. Then, the program data are tentatively stored in a RAM 17 and then copied to the ROM 16 by a prescribed capacity each. The CPU 12 executes self reset after the transfer of the data is ended.