[ZigBee][CC2530] [Z-Stack][IAR] Generating Hex File Using Z-Stack for Release

    TI does provide comprehensive documents regarding its products, compared to many other chip vendors. However, too many documents without directory lead us lost ourselves.

    In Z-Stack Samples, we generate .d51 file under "EXE" directory by default. To generate hex file for mass production, I found there is useful introduction at How to configure the IAR EW 8051 to generate a hex file for CC2530 using Z-Stack? (plus link for CC2430/CC2431)



Step 1: Open the Z-stack workspace with IAR and locate the linker file f8w2530.xcl.
The f8w2530.xcl file can be found in the Tools file group in IAR.

• To avoid change this file back and forth for debug and release, I copied it to the project folder and added to my release configuration (IAR->Project Option->Linker->Config Tab->Linker Configuration File, override default to the new .xcl)
• at Output Tab of Linker, Click the “Override default” option in the “Output file” box and rename the xxx.a51 to xxx.hex 

Step 2: Include the linker file –M option by including the 3 lines as shown in the figure below.
// Include these two lines when generating a .hex file for banked code model:
-M(CODE)[(_CODEBANK_START+_FIRST_BANK_ADDR)-(_CODEBANK_END+_FIRST_BANK_ADDR)]*\
_NR_OF_BANKS+_FIRST_BANK_ADDR=0x8000

For the rest steps you may follow "How to configure the IAR EW 8051 to generate a hex file for CC2530 using Z-Stack? (plus link for CC2430/CC2431)"


I was using


IAR Assembler for 8051
  8.10.3 (8.10.3.40338)

ZStack-2.5.1a