# Device Firmware Upgrade
## Identification
A standardized mode for transferring firmware to a device. The notebook contrasts DFU with over-the-air updating and places it beside USB loaders and FPGA tooling.
## Notebook evidence
- [[Scanned_20260730-1946|Scanned_20260730-1946]], PDF pages 3 and 10.
## Relationships and evidentiary boundary
[[Custom firmware]] · [[Cypress EZ-USB FX2]] · [[Hardware Provenance]].
The notebook occurrence records research context and page-level proximity. It does not by itself establish ownership, deployment, compromise, coordination, or present-day status.