HydraFW Hex dump guide

HydraFW hex dump guide

This guide is updated towards firmware release HydraFW v0.8 Beta: HydraFW (HydraBus) v0.8-beta-0-ga2aab9d 2016-10-13

Introduction

In various modes, the hd command allows to read data and display it in a hexdump format instead of raw bytes.

Since 613bde17bbb00f4fe82f7d0550538eeb8b2517ae, the parameter value can be between 1 and 4294967295 (4GB)

Example

uart1> hd:31
48 65 6C 6C 6F 20 48 79  64 72 61 46 57 20 21 0A  |  Hello HydraFW !.
53 61 6D 70 6C 65 20 48  65 78 64 75 6D 70 0A     |  Sample Hexdump.

Convert hexdump data to binary

It is possible to convert the output from HydraFW to a binary file using the Linux xxd utility. Copy the output in a text file, save it then run the following command to convert :

xxd -r -p hexdump.txt > binary.bin