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10 years ago

POF file

Why an Assembler generated POF file is different than a POF file generated by "Convert Programming Files..." tool? Both files are the same size but a significant number of bytes are different. Compar...
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10 years ago

Hi,

Google gave me this documentation of the POF format: http://www.pldtool.com/pdf/fmt_pof.pdf (http://www.pldtool.com/pdf/fmt_pof.pdf) (doesn't look like the "official" documentation, but I think it's sufficient). It's very terse, but as you can see, there's a "Creator_ID", which identifies the "program which created the POF", so that field will obviously change depending on whether the assembler tool generates it or the programming file converter tool creates it.

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GooGooCluster