scatter

 

Reference

http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/uv4/uv4_dg_l51loc.htm

Keil BL51 Locate

 

http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/armlink/armlink_pge1362075691804.htm

http://www.keil.com/forum/14954/scatter-file/

http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/armlink/armlink_pge1362075656353.htm

http://www.keil.com/support/docs/3237.htm

http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/ARMCC/ARMCC_chr1359124982450.htm

CRP

CRP(Code read protection) is a way to avoid someone to get code from flash.

CRP

Time Stamp

for keil compilar environment, they had a defination for time stamp, therefore we could use that to be a release note for product purpose.

how to use?

printf("%s %s",__DATE__,__TIME__);

or you could assign memory for them.

U8 KC_DATA Datestring[sizeof(__DATE__)];
U8 KC_DATA Timestring[sizeof(__TIME__)];


memcpy(Datestring, &__DATE__, sizeof(__DATE__));
memcpy(Timestring, &__TIME__, sizeof(__TIME__));

 

Reference

[1] http://www.keil.com/forum/2789/display-time-and-date/

compilar a specific memory address for variable and function

Compiler-specific Features [4]

function attributs

assign a section for place function code [1,2]

Variable attributs

locating a variable at absolute memory address [3]

Reference

[1] http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/armccref/armccref_Cacbgief.htm

[2] http://www.keil.com/forum/13875/-at-for-function-address/

[3] http://www.keil.com/support/docs/2829.htm

[4] http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/armccref/armccref_chdfijae.htm

Keil Firmware Binary

 

Normally, Keil will build the HEX file for Magic Flash to burn the code to MCU or .axf for mvisual.

but it’s not for binary code. therefore we need to using some ways to convert HEX to binary.

1.

C:\Keil\ARM\ARMCC\bin\fromelf.exe --bin --output=myprog.bin myprog.axf[1,2]

2.

C:\Keil\ARM\bin\ElfDwt.exe <filename>.axf BIN(<filename>.bin)[3]

 

and we could check the binary with application(AN11305)[4].

this software will check the signature at 0x1C, (43 f0 ff ef or charater Cðÿï )

Reference

[1]http://www.keil.com/support/docs/3213.htm

[2]http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka11291.html

[3]http://www.lpcware.com/content/blog/binary-file-creation-using-keil-mdk-toolchain

[4]http://www.lpcware.com/content/nxpfile/an11305-usb-system-programming-lpc11u3xlpc11u2x