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S-Records -S-Record Format- Chaplin@keinstr.uucp (Roger Chaplin) reposted an article written by mcdchg!motmpl!ron (Ron Widell) that explained how Motorola S-Records are formatted. This comes from a unix man page. No mention of which version of Unix is specified. This section of the FAQ is a bit long. An anonymous ftp archive is currently being sought. When one is found, the section will be placed in the archive. SREC(4) UNIX 5.0 (03/21/84) SREC(4) An S-record file consists of a sequence of specially formatted ASCII character strings. An S-record will be less than or equal to 78 bytes in length. The order of S-records within a file is of no significance and no particular order may be assumed. The general format of an S-record follow: +------------------//-------------------//-----------------------+ | type | count | address | data | checksum | +------------------//-------------------//-----------------------+ type A char-2- field. These characters describe the type of record (S0, S1, S2, S3, S5, S7, S8, or S9). count A char-2- field. These characters when paired and interpreted as a hexadecimal value, display the count of remaining character pairs in the record. address A char-4,6, or 8- field. These characters grouped and interpreted as a hexadecimal value, display the address at which the data field is to be loaded into memory. The length of the field depends on the number of bytes necessary to hold the address. A 2-byte address uses 4 characters, a 3-byte address uses 6 characters, and a 4-byte address uses 8 characters. data A char -0-64- field. These characters when paired and interpreted as hexadecimal values represent the memory loadable data or descriptive information. checksum A char-2- field. These characters when paired and interpreted as a hexadecimal value display the least significant byte of the ones complement of the sum of the byte values represented by the pairs of characters making up the count, the address, and the data fields. Each record is terminated with a line feed. If any additional or different record terminator(s) or delay characters are needed during transmission to the target system it is the responsibility of the transmitting program to provide them. S0 Record The type of record is 'S0' (0x5330). The address field is unused and will be filled with zeros (0x0000). The header information within the data field is divided into the following subfields. mname is char-20- and is the module name. ver is char-2- and is the version number. rev is char-2- and is the revision number. description is char-0-36- and is a text comment. Each of the subfields is composed of ASCII bytes whose associated characters, when paired, represent one byte hexadecimal values in the case of the version and revision numbers, or represent the hexadecimal values of the ASCII characters comprising the module name and description. S1 Record The type of record field is 'S1' (0x5331). The address field is interpreted as a 2-byte address. The data field is composed of memory loadable data. S2 Record The type of record field is 'S2' (0x5332). The address field is interpreted as a 3-byte address. The data field is composed of memory loadable data. S3 Record The type of record field is 'S3' (0x5333). The address field is interpreted as a 4-byte address. The data field is composed of memory loadable data. S5 Record The type of record field is 'S5' (0x5335). The address field is interpreted as a 2-byte value and contains the count of S1, S2, and S3 records previously transmitted. There is no data field. S7 Record The type of record field is 'S7' (0x5337). The address field contains the starting execution address and is interpreted as 4-byte address. There is no data field. S8 Record The type of record field is 'S8' (0x5338). The address field contains the starting execution address and is interpreted as 3-byte address. There is no data field. S9 Record The type of record field is 'S9' (0x5339). The address field contains the starting execution address and is interpreted as 2-byte address. There is no data field. EXAMPLE Shown below is a typical S-record format file. S00600004844521B S1130000285F245F2212226A000424290008237C2A S11300100002000800082629001853812341001813 S113002041E900084E42234300182342000824A952 S107003000144ED492 S5030004F8 S9030000FC The file consists of one S0 record, four S1 records, one S5 record and an S9 record. The S0 record is comprised as follows: S0 S-record type S0, indicating it is a header record. 06 Hexadecimal 06 (decimal 6), indicating that six character pairs (or ASCII bytes) follow. 00 00 Four character 2-byte address field, zeroes in this example. 48 ASCII H, D, and R - "HDR". 1B The checksum. The first S1 record is comprised as follows: S1 S-record type S1, indicating it is a data record to be loaded at a 2-byte address. 13 Hexadecimal 13 (decimal 19), indicating that nineteen character pairs, representing a 2 byte address, 16 bytes of binary data, and a 1 byte checksum, follow. 00 00 Four character 2-byte address field; hexadecimal address 0x0000, where the data which follows is to be loaded. 28 5F 24 5F 22 12 22 6A 00 04 24 29 00 08 23 7C Sixteen character pairs representing the actual binary data. 2A The checksum. The second and third S1 records each contain 0x13 (19) character pairs and are ended with checksums of 13 and 52, respectively. The fourth S1 record contains 07 character pairs and has a checksum of 92. The S5 record is comp