HydraFW Hex dump guide

HydraFW hex dump guide

This guide is updated towards firmware release HydraFW v0.9 Beta

Introduction

In various modes, the hd command allows to read data and display it in a hexdump format instead of raw bytes. hd:1…4294967295 for bulk reads up to (2^32)-1

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