How do you change the program counter (PC)

erik.teose at exgate.tek.com erik.teose at exgate.tek.com
Sat Jan 25 03:58:20 EST 2003


> > SREC: (I am not much sure) It seems an old format used
> mostly by motorola.
> > It's like BIN format, but has other information used for
> downloading. It seems
> > some bootloaders need SREC format for downloading.
> >
>
> SREC is more or less the same as a BIN file but it has an address and
> checksum so it would be much smaller if you want to put a
> byte at 0 and
> one at 100000 and you can be sure that is is correctly transfered.

A big difference is that SREC is full ascii, which means lots of
bytes of overhead, which means longer transfer times if you're loading
via rs232.

Erik

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