# Features

Features of the **MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tool** include:

-   Support target connectivity via UART, USB-HID, SPI, and I2C serial download modes
-   Support multiple user application image formats \(bin, hex, srec, elf\).
-   Automated conversion of bare images to bootable images
-   Downloading a bootable image in the target boot device
-   Customization of booting from external flash either using GUI or predefined flash configuration blocks
-   Generation of certificate trees for image signing and encryption, or use of user-supplied certificates
-   Optional signature provider that allows customizing integration of HSM module for signing the image
-   Support for development \(unsigned and CRC\) boot types
-   Support for authenticated \(signed\) and encrypted boot types
-   Key provisioning and fusing as dictated by boot type
-   Advanced OTP/PFR/IFR configuration
-   Trust provisioning, device HSM and Edgelock2GO proxy flow for production in factory
-   Dual boot ping pong page
-   Command-line interface for customized boot flows
-   Simple Flash Programming tool
-   Support for debug authentication
-   SB editor tool for creation of custom SB files
-   Signing the image for the MCUboot secondary bootloader
-   Merge tool to merge up to 8 images into one single binary image.
-   Manufacturing tool to support parallel provisioning operations in the factory
-   Additional command-line utilities for low-level interaction with the device
-   Windows 64-bit, Linux 64-bit, and MacOS hosts