6 Oct
2003
6 Oct
'03
8:24 a.m.
Dave,
your hazy memory is great. You just filled in a critical blank
that has made a world of difference. Searching the planet for
references to "IPPS" turned up nothing, but "OMF" is still quite
nicely documented on the Web. My favorite file-format reference,
www.wotsit.org, has a document for OMF, as do some other sites.
Armed with this knowledge, I can now look at modifying an old
Motorola S-record to Intel Hex converter with a new front end to
suck up the OMF records and spit them out in Hex.
All the best,
Bob Maxwell
rmaxwell(a)atlantissi.com
Dave Mabry wrote:
Now, as is normal for me, this is hazy, but I think I
remember what you
are talking about.
Intel used a format they called "object module format" that
had header
information on each block, and several possible blocks. As I recall,
the MCS48 family, due to its limited memory addressibility, used the
same OMF (object module format) as the 8080.
Naturally, since Intel defined it, all their tools could read
and write
it. IPPS was the name of the software used to read and write EPROMS,
etc, using Intel's iUP-201 programmer.
All that being said, I think I can help you. If you don't
have anything
that can read and understand Intel's OMF, I do. I have a
working system
that can execute IPPS. There are other utilities in the
Intel operating
system, ISIS-II, that can also do this. I should be able to convert
your OMF file to an Intel HEX format file. Intel HEX is very
common and
most programmers can understand it. It is also block oriented, but
ascii characters rather than pure binary.
Sorry to be so wordy, but bottom line is this. (into
Technicolor dream
mode) If you send me your OMF file I can convert it to HEX
and send it
back to you. Hope that will help.
Dave
Robert Maxwell wrote:
This will meet the on-topic age requirement, at
least...
For programming devices like processors and EPROMS with
an Intel Universal
Programmer,
a file format was used, called "IPPS." I need to program
8749
processors
from files
in IPPS format, and have no working Universal Programmer.
The format appears to be a block-oriented binary, with a
file header
identifying the
target device, and headers of indeterminate size preceding
sections of
binary code.
Nobody I spoke to at Intel recognizes it.
Does anybody remember, or have access to,
documentation/data or (dreaming
in Technicolor(R))
a utility to convert IPPS files into a less-unique format,
say binary or
Intel Hex? This
would save me from having to type in hex values from an old
listing to
> regenerate the code.