srec_ppb(5)

🎀 srec_ppb — Stag Prom Programmer binary format 🎀

okay bestie, this is srec_ppb(5) from the File Formats Manual — and it’s giving native binary format of the Stag Prom Programmer energy. Let’s get into it 💅

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💖 NAME

srec_ppb — Stag Prom Programmer binary format.

🌸 DESCRIPTION

This is the native binary format of the Stag Prom Programmer. No cap.

✨ Format

The format is packet based. A packet is composed of, in order:

• an 0x01 byte
• the packet payload size (4 bytes, big-endian)
• the packet address (4 bytes, big-endian)
• the packet data
• the negative of a one-byte simple sum of the payload size, address and payload data

If the packet payload is more than 1024 bytes, there is an intermediate checksum after each 1024th payload byte. 👀

The end of file is indicated by a packet with a zero-length payload. periodt.

🎀 Command Line Option

This format is specified using the -PPB command line option. slay.

🦋 Size Multiplier

In general, binary data will expand in size by approximately 1.002 times when represented with this format (worse if there are many short data regions). lowkey important.

⭐ SEE ALSO

• https://web.archive.org/web/20110417235840/http://www.stag.co.uk/

👑 COPYRIGHT

• srec_cat version 1.65
• Copyright (C) 1998... 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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✨ cute sign-off: source/version = SRecord Reference Manual, page srec_ppb(5); the original footer doesn’t show a date, so I’m not inventing one — mwah 💋✨