Provided by:
srecord_1.24-1_i386 
NAME
srec_mos_tech - MOS Technologies file format
DESCRIPTION
The Mos Technologies format allows binary files to be uploaded and
downloaded between between a computer system (such as a PC, Macintosh,
or workstation) and an emulator or evaluation board for
microcontrollers and microprocessors.
The Lines
Each line consists of 5 fields. These are the length field, address
field, data field, and the checksum. The lines always start with a
semicolon (;) character.
The Fields
+--+--------+---------+------+----------+---+
|; | Length | Address | Data | Checksum | |
+--+--------+---------+------+----------+---+
Length The record length field is a 2 character (1 byte) field that
specifies the number of data bytes in the record.
Address This is a 2-byte address that specifies where the data in the
record is to be loaded into memory.
Data The data field contains the executable code, memory-loadable
data or descriptive information to be transferred.
Checksum
The checksum is an 2-byte field that represents the least
significant two byte of the the sum of the values represented
by the pairs of characters making up the record’s length,
address, and data fields.
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 MOS Technologies format file. It contains the data
‘‘Hello, World’’ to be loaded at address 0.
S110000048656C6C6F2C20576F726C640A9D
;00
COPYRIGHT
srec_cat version 1.24
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Peter Miller;
All rights reserved.
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.
AUTHOR
Peter Miller E-Mail: millerp@canb.auug.org.au
/\/\* WWW: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/