Rockwell Automation 2711 PanelBuilder 1200 Transfer Utility - Manual (Page 49)

Transferring Application Files with
Chapter 5
User PROMs
5-6
a Choose Send User Memory [U2] to send the data for the EPROM
chip to the EPROM burner.
b If you want to configure your computer’s serial port to communicate
with the EPROM burner, choose Configure Port.
c If you want to calculate the amount of memory the application would
occupy in a PanelView 1200 terminal, choose Application Size. This
is not the same as the disk space used by the application.
Converting an Application File into a Hex File
You can convert an application file into a hex file. Later, you can retrieve
the hex file and send it to the EPROM burner. The application file must be
smaller than 64K.
To convert an application file into a Hex file:
" Choose Generate Hex File from the Burn Single EPROM menu and
press
ENTER.
The file that is created has the file extension *.U2.
Burning a Previously Generated Hex File
If you have a previously generated Hex file, you can send it to the EPROM
burner.
To burn a previously generated Hex file:
1 Choose Select Hex File from the Burn Single EPROM menu, and select
the file you want to burn. Press
ENTER.
The Hex file will be loaded and the Burn FILENAME menu will appear
as it does when you’re using the Select Application File option.
2 Follow steps 5a to 5c outlined in the previous section.