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.\" srecord - Manipulate EPROM load files
.\" Copyright (C) 2011 Peter Miller
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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.ds n) srec_ppx
.TH \*(n) 5 SRecord "Reference Manual"
.SH NAME
srec_ppx \- Stag Prom Programmer hexadecimal format
.if require_index \{
.\}
.SH DESCRIPTION
This is the native hexadecimal format of the Stag Prom Programmer.
.SS Format
The file must start with an asterisk '*' on a line by itself.
.PP
Each line has a 16\[hy]bit address, followed by 8\[hy]bit bytes.
.PP
The end is indicated by '$S' folloowed by a 16\[hy]bit checksum of the
data bytes as 4 hex digits.
.SS Command Line Option
This format is specified using the \fB\-PPX\fP
command line option.
.SS 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).
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.br
.ne 2i
.SH EXAMPLE
Here is an example PPX file.
It contains the data \[lq]Hello, World\[rq] to be loaded at bytes address 0x0000
(but remember, the file contents are always multiples of four bytes).
.RS
.nf
.ft CW
*
0000 48 65 6C 6C 6F 2C 20 57 6F 72 6C 64 21 0A $S0473
.ft P
.fi
.RE
.SH SEE ALSO
http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/pdf/pp39.pdf
http://www.stag.co.uk/
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.\"
.\"     srecord - manipulate eprom load files
.\"     Copyright (C) 1998, 2006-2009, 2014 Peter Miller
.\"
.\"     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\"     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\"     the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\"     (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\"     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\"     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\"     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
.\"     GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\"     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\"     along with this program. If not, see
.\"     <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.\"
.br
.ne 1i
.SH COPYRIGHT
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.ds V) 1.64.D001
.ds v) 1.64
.ds Y) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
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.I \*(n)
version \*(v)
.br
Copyright
.if n (C)
.if t \(co
\*(Y) Peter Miller
.br
.PP
The
.I \*(n)
program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
for details use the '\fI\*(n) \-VERSion License\fP' command.
This is free software
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
for details use the '\fI\*(n) \-VERSion License\fP' command.
.br
.ne 1i
.SH MAINTAINER
.TS
tab(;);
l r l.
Scott Finneran;E\[hy]Mail:;scottfinneran@yahoo.com.au
Peter Miller;E\[hy]Mail:;pmiller@opensource.org.au
.TE
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