srec_ppx(5)

NAME
srec_ppx - Stag Prom Programmer hexadecimal format

DESCRIPTION
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.

  Command Line Option
This format is specified using the -PPX command line option.

  Size Multiplier
In general, binary data will expand in sized by approximately 3 times when represented with this format (worse if you use shorter lines).

EXAMPLE
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

SEE ALSO
http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/pdf/pp39.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110417235840/http://www.stag.co.uk/

COPYRIGHT
srec_cat version 1.65
Copyright (C) 1998... Peter Miller

The srec_cat program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the 'srec_cat -VERSion License' command. This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details use the 'srec_cat -VERSion License' command.

MAINTAINER
Scott Finneran | E-Mail: | scottfinneran@yahoo.com.au
Peter Miller | E-Mail: | pmiller@opensource.org.au