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17 years ago

help:the format of *.flash(where is the first row in the file,when download it to ep)

hello, i am sorry, my english is poor. i read the data from epcs in nios program, and compared it with the *.flash in my PC. i found the first row "S01200006D617869756D696E672E666C617368...
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17 years ago

The flash file is in the format of Motorla S-Record.

That first row, "S0..." is the block header information.

Look here for more detail of the S-Record format and you can easily distinguish each line in the flash file.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/s-record