Introduction

Kiwi is Dooba's bootloader for AVR microcontrollers.

Usage

When power is applied to the microcontroller, it starts executing Kiwi.

Kiwi will then wait for 4 seconds. If a dflash instruction is received within that time, the wait timer is cancelled and the flashing process starts.

If nothing happens within those 4 seconds, Kiwi will start executing whatever application is stored in flash memory.

Another way to trigger Kiwi is to pulse the RESET line (active low) of the microcontroller.

For more information on how this works with dflash to provide simple flashing capability, head over to Black magic - kiwi & dflash.