srec_ppx - Stag Prom Programmer hexadecimal format

srec_cat version 1.64 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Peter Miller The srec_cat program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the 'srec_cat-VERSionLicense' command. This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details use the 'srec_cat-VERSionLicense' command.

This is the native hexadecimal format of the Stag Prom Programmer. Format The file must start with an asterisk '*' on a line by itself. Each line has a 16‐bit address, followed by 8‐bit bytes. The end is indicated by '$S' folloowed by a 16‐bit checksum of the data bytes as 4 hex digits. CommandLineOption This format is specified using the -PPX command line option. SizeMultiplier In general, binary data will expand in sized by approximately 3 times when represented with this format (worse if you use shorter lines).

Here is an example PPX file. It contains the data “Hello, World” to be loaded at bytes address 0x0000 (but remember, the file contents are always multiples of four bytes). * 0000 48 65 6C 6C 6F 2C 20 57 6F 72 6C 64 21 0A $S0473

Scott Finneran E‐Mail: scottfinneran@yahoo.com.au Peter Miller E‐Mail: pmiller@opensource.org.au Reference Manual SRecord srec_ppx(5)

srec_ppx - Stag Prom Programmer hexadecimal format