Post by thread:PICLIST Digest - 29 Sep 1996 to 30 Sep 1996

I need to program 16C5X parts with assembly code that was assembled using the old PICALC assembler which output .OBJ files and was formatted as INHX16. This was ok when I was using the older PICPRO II programmer but now I am using the PROMATE II which only recognizes INHX8M format and .HEX files. Is there a way to convert the INHX16/OBJ files to INHX8M/HEX files? Any help would be appreciated.

You may have to re-assemble the code with MPASM and to do this you need to specify which processor you are using with the command line or the LIST directive. You should move all of you lables to column 1 and Directives to column 2, but avoiding this only generates minor errors. Any Radix changes also need to be made compatible with the current MPASM version. eg. movlw .5, movlw b'00001111' etc. Regards Tony Just when I thought I knew it all, I learned that I didn't.

At 10:22 PM 9/30/96 -0700, you wrote: >I need to program 16C5X parts with assembly code that was assembled >using the old PICALC assembler which output .OBJ files and was >formatted as INHX16. This was ok when I was using the older PICPRO II >programmer but now I am using the PROMATE II which only recognizes >INHX8M format and .HEX files. Is there a way to convert the INHX16/OBJ >files to INHX8M/HEX files? Any help would be appreciated. > Bill, I strongly suggest you reassemble with MPASM if at all possible. Failing that, if you are really stuck, I could rework my programmer code to do the conversion for you if you really need it. Let me know if you still need help. Jim

Further to my message about using MPSIM as a hex file converter. MPSIM will not load a hex file unless it has .HEX as its extension so you'll need to rename FILE.OBJ to FILE.HEX before MPSIM will look at it. David -- spam_OUTdavid.taitTakeThisOuTman.ac.uk http://www.man.ac.uk/~mbhstdj

Bill Bau aksed: > Is there a way to convert the INHX16/OBJ > files to INHX8M/HEX files? Any help would be appreciated. MPSIM can be used as a format converter because it loads INHX16 files automatically and saves in INHX8M by default. Use "lo" to load your file and "o" to save the new file. MPSIM will probably complain about the lack of supporting files (.COD and .LST) but it will load the hex file anyway. I have written a set of utilities for PIC16C84 hex files and they might help you if you wanted to make your own conversion tool. The utilities come with source and a short tutorial on the difference between INHX16 and INHX8M: www.man.ac.uk/~mbhstdj/files/pichex01.zip or ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/micro-controllers/PIC/pichex01.zip David -- .....david.taitKILLspam@spam@man.ac.uk