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Dear all my friends,
Does anybody know how can i program my eprom when i use spartanII and parallel eprom. ISE generate a mcs file. I must convert it to another format or just use it? How? Help me please.
 

MCS is an ASCII file. If you wish to program raw data you may need a raw file format, or convert it in your program.

Usually, raw file format are saved as '.bin'. Then, each bytes in the file is what you poke to the memory. You can select the output file format in your bitgen tool.

It depend on which tool you use to program the EEPROM. If you use a stand-alone programmer, the software that come with it usually can read many file format, and extract the EEPROM bytes from it. In any case, a file saved as '.bin' usually is the exact copy of what will be put into the EEPROM.
 

I don't use PROMGen (it creates the MCS file). Instead, I run BitGen with the "-g binary:yes" option. That produces a BIN file containing the pure binary bitstream without any headers or other junk. I link that BIN file into the rest of my project, which gets burned into flash, and then executed by a DSP system controller.

Of course, I usually do things differently from everyone else! :wink:
 

Within the properties of generating the config file with ISE you have options to create popular formats BIT/Binary/ASCII/IEEE 1532 of PROMs.

If you wish to convert for .BIT file to Flash .EXO or .MCS format you can use PROMGEN to do so.
 

I found it:
.mcs (Intel hex format)
.exo (Motorola hex format)
.tek (Tektronix hex file format)
 

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