Supported file formats for loading into EEPROM

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Supported file formats for loading into EEPROM

Postby Guest » 14 Nov 2011 11:58

Is there some documentation of file formats that can be read into the dataman memory buffer and loaded into an EEPROM. I have raw ascii characters that I need to load directly into an EEPROM.

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Re: Supported file formats for loading into EEPROM

Postby Dataman (Neil Parker) » 14 Nov 2011 11:58

Hi,

I believe you can use ASCII format on S4.
There is no documentation needed.
You MUST know the exact size of the file!
Windows Explorer normally shows file sizes in kbytes.
You need to know the size in bytes.
Then convert (size-1) to HEX and use it to specify the end address in the file receive command.

Hope this helps.

Neil

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Re: Supported file formats for loading into EEPROM

Postby Guest » 14 Nov 2011 11:58

The unit we have is a dataman 48. Does it also allow use of ASCII format?

thanks

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Re: Supported file formats for loading into EEPROM

Postby Dataman (Neil Parker) » 14 Nov 2011 11:59

Hi Neil,

By using the 'All files' extension in the load file option in the Dataman 48 software you should be able to load an ascii file and then burn it to your EEPROM.

Regards,

Neil

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Re: Supported file formats for loading into EEPROM

Postby Dataman (Neil Parker) » 14 Nov 2011 12:01

Hi,

Dataman has not carried out any testing of these USB to RS232 devices, so we cannot say whether or not they will work reliably.
All I can advise is that you give it a try.

Neil

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Re: Supported file formats for loading into EEPROM

Postby Dataman (Neil Parker) » 14 Nov 2011 12:02

Hi,

We are currently testing out USB to serial converters for use with S4. When we have found one that will work reliably I will post information both here and on our main website.

Best regards,

Neil

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Re: Supported file formats for loading into EEPROM

Postby Dataman (Neil Parker) » 14 Nov 2011 12:02

Antony

Please download the latest S4 driver software from our website, it has been rewritten in C++ to work with Windows XP and 2000.

I hope this solves your problem.

Neil


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