3. Getting StartedUniSite-xpi User Manual 3-45Session 16: Selecting a Translation FormatThis Session and the following Session are companion Sessions. ThisSession introduces you to translation formats and shows you how toselect a translation format. The next Session shows you how to load adata file through UniSite-xpi’s Terminal port.About TranslationFormats Translation formats represent different ways of representing the devicedata in a data file. A data file could contain the fuse pattern and testvectors for a logic device or the data for a memory device.Getting There Starting at the Main Menu, press M, T, F to get to the Translation Formatscreen, which should look like Figure 3-51. If you get lost, return to theMain Menu and start over. (Remember, press F1 to get to the MainMenu.)Making a Choice Now that you are at the I/O Translation Format selection screen, youneed to choose a translation format to use. Normally, you would selectthe same format as your data file. For this Session, select the Intel 8-bitHex translation format.Select the translation format the same way you selected a devicemanufacturer: find what you are looking for and type the number besideit. So, for the format selection screen shown in Figure 3-51, you wouldtype 8, 3 and press E NTER to select the Intel 8-bit Hex (Intel Intellec8/MDS) translation format. When you press E NTER, UniSite-xpiconfigures itself for the selected translation format and returns you to theTransfer Menu. Notice that the I/O Format line in the status window haschanged and now readsI/O FORMAT: Intel Intellec 8/MDSFigure 3-51The Translation Format SelectionScreen
