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 from 1 byte and 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