3980xpi Users Manual - Data I/O Corporation

Absolute Binary Format, Code 16
Translation Formats
This packet defines a group of logical addresses in the target device
and associates logical data with these addresses. The addresses
comprise a linear region in the logical address space, bounded on the
low end by the starting address and extending upward by the address
count specified in the packet.
The starting address and address count are each specified by 4-byte
fields (32 bits).
Absolute Binary format is a literal representation of the data to be transferred,
and no translation of the data takes place during the transfer. There are no
overhead characters added to the data (i.e. no address record, start code, end
code, nulls, or checksum). Every byte transferred represents the users data.
This format can be used to download unformatted data such as a “.exe” file to
the programmer.
Since this format does not have an end of file character, download transfers
will terminate after no more data is received and an I/O timeout occurs. This is
true for all data formats which don't have an end of file indicator. For this
reason, do not use a value of 0 for the I/O timeout parameter on the
communication parameters screen, since this will disable the timeout from
occurring. A value between 1 and 99 (inclusive) should be used for the I/O
timeout parameter when using formats which require the timeout to occur.
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