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srec_fairchild(5)	       File Formats Manual	       srec_fairchild(5)

NAME
     srec_fairchild - Fairchild Fairbug file format

DESCRIPTION
     The Fairchild Fairbug format has 8-byte records.  A file begins with an ad-
     dress 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 |
				    +---+------+
     indicating the address for the following data records.

     Data records are of the form
			    +---+------------------+---+
			    | X | ffffffffffffffff | c |
			    +---+------------------+---+
     Each data record begins with an X and always contains 8 data bytes.  The ff
     characters are hexadecimal byte values (8 bytes).	Each data byte is repre-
     sented  by  2 hexadecimal characters.  The c character is a hex digit being
     the the nibble-sum of the data bytes.  A 1-digit hexadecimal checksum  fol-
     lows the data in each data record.  The checksum represents, in hexadecimal
     notation, the sum of the binary equivalents of the 16 digits in the record;
     the  half carry from the fourth bit is ignored.  The programmer ignores any
     character (except for address characters and the asterisk character,  which
     terminates the data transfer) between a checksum and the start character of
     the next data record. This space can be used for comments.

     The end-of-file record has the form
				       +---+
				       | * |
				       +---+
     The  last	record	consists of an asterisk only, which indicates the end of
     file.

   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 1.64
     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 -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

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