# pyfwimagebuilder - Firmware Image Builder
This utility is used to produce image files which can be used with the pymdfu tool: https://pypi.org/project/pymdfu/



## Overview
* install using pip from pypi: https://pypi.org/project/pyfwimagebuilder
## Usage
pyfwimagebuilder can be used as a command-line interface or a library
### Building an image from the command-line
for help, use:
```bash
pyfwimagebuilder --help
```
Example usage:
Building an image:
```bash
pyfwimagebuilder build -i myapp.hex -c myconfig.toml -o myimage.img
```
Decoding an image:
```bash
pyfwimagebuilder decode -i myapp.img -c myconfig.toml -o myimage.txt
```
### Additional command-line switches
* -v LEVEL for selecting logging verbosity ('debug', 'info', 'warning', 'error', 'critical')
# Changelog
## [1.3.0] - July 2025
- PYTOOLS-158, PYTOOLS-162, PYTOOLS-481: Added image binary decoding
- PYTOOLS-479: Added file format support for Cortex-M0+
- PYTOOLS-163: Added warning for data that is not within the device memory range
- PYTOOLS-492: Fixed segment inclusion to not skip data that is in the valid range when there is data that is outside
## [1.0.0] - December 2023
- Public beta release
## [0.0.1] - October 2023
- Package planning
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