DESCRIPTION
The Fairchild Fairbug format has 8-byte records. A file begins with an address record and ends with an end-of-file record.
There are three record types in this file format.
Address records are of the form
S | nnnn |
Data records are of the form
X | ffffffffffffffff | c |
The end-of-file record has the form
* |
Size Multiplier
In general, binary data will expand in sized by approximately 2.4 times when represented with this format.EXAMPLE
Here is an example Fairchild Fairbug file. It contains the data "Hello, World[rq] to be loaded at address 0x1000. Notice how the last record is padded with 0xFF bytes.-
S1000 X48656C6C6F2C2057C X6F726C64210AFFFF3 *
COPYRIGHT
srec_cat version 1.58Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Peter Miller
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