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Generate a .bin file from .elf file ?

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In this case ".elf" is generated for a arc processor from a synopsys metaware IDE SDK tool.

I want to convert to .bin or particularly .hex file so that i can use it for a verilog memory initialization file ($readmemh) and do some simulations.

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Executable binary is part of the *.elf content. It can be extracted with tools for the respective processor. More easily, you can instruct the IDE to generate a *.hex or *.bin file directly during compilation.
 

with my novice knowlege . i explored all the options available in the sdk gui but unable to figure out how to instruct the IDE. i searched help-> help contents. but no help on this topic(or they may be using other sw terminology which i dont understand).

on googling, I found objcopy command. but endup with this in cygwin terminal

$ objcopy hello_world.elf -O binary
objcopy: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `hello_world.elf'
 

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