Department of Computer Scien

ce and Information Engineering

National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN

HANEL

EXPLAINING INTEL HEX

FILE(cont’)

‰In the DOS environment

¾The object file is fed into the linker program to produce the abs file

ƒThe abs file is used by systems that have a monitor program

¾Then the abs file is fed into the OH utility to create the Intel hex file

ƒThe hex file is used only by the loader of an EPROM programmer to l

oad it into the ROM

chip