srec_stewie - Stewie's binary file 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.

If you have a URL for documentation of this format, please let me know. Any resemblance to the Motorola S‐Record is superficial, and extends only to the data records. The header records and termination records are completely different. None of the other Motorola S‐Records record type are available. TheRecords All records start with an ASCII capital S character, value 0x53, followed by a type specifier byte. All records consist of binary bytes. TheHeaderRecord Each file starts with a fixed four byte header record. ┌──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┐ │ 0x53 │ 0x30 │ 0x30 │ 0x33 │ └──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┘ TheDataRecords Each data record consists of 5 fields. These are the type field, length field, address field, data field, and the checksum. The lines always start with a capital S character. ┌──────┬──────┬───────────────┬─────────┬──────┬──────────┐ │ 0x53 │ Type │ Record Length │ Address │ Data │ Checksum │ └──────┴──────┴───────────────┴─────────┴──────┴──────────┘ Type The type field is a one byte field that specifies whether the record has a two‐byte address field (0x31), a three‐byte address field (0x32) or a four‐byte address field (0x33). The address is big‐endian. Record Length The record length field is a one byte field that specifies the number of bytes in the record following this byte. Address This is a 2‐, 3‐ or 4‐byte address that specifies where the data in the record is to be loaded into memory. Data The data field contains the executable code, memory‐loadable data or descriptive information to be transferred. Checksum The checksum is a one byte field that represents the least significant byte of the one's complement of the sum of the values represented by the bytes making up the record's length, address, and data fields. TheTerminationRecord Each file ends with a fixed two byte termination record. ┌──────┬──────┐ │ 0x53 │ 0x38 │ └──────┴──────┘ SizeMultiplier In general, binary data will expand in sized by approximately 1.2 times when represented with this format.

Here is an hex‐dump example file. It contains the data “Hello, World[rq] to be loaded at address 0. 0000: 53 30 30 33 53 31 10 00 00 48 65 6C 6C 6F 2C 20 S003S1...Hello, 0010: 57 6F 72 6C 64 0A 9D 53 38 World..S8

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

srec_stewie - Stewie's binary file format