Hi,
I am just an IT guy (computer engineer) and beginning my adventure with microcontrollers and embedded software. Nice to meet you all.
One of my learning tasks is -so i I decided it- disassembling a 256kb flash image, a .bin file. The information I have is:
-The target processor belongs to Intel's 87c196 family
-The target EEPROM for the .bin file is a 29F200 one
I've tried the IDA and binwalk programs on the .bin, but with no success. Therefore I am going with the manual, hard method. And here is where I want to ask you: how to proceed? Any clues about how to start? I am not able to tell apart code sections from data sections. I have downloaded some user guides for similar chips, but they do not seem to mention this kind of info (where the instructions shall be located on an external memory chip).
Thanks a lot in advance; any little piece of help will be much appreciated.
DISCLAIMER: this is just a learning-purposes project. I am not trying to publish any of my results nor take monetary profit of closed and copy-righted code in any way.
I am just an IT guy (computer engineer) and beginning my adventure with microcontrollers and embedded software. Nice to meet you all.
One of my learning tasks is -so i I decided it- disassembling a 256kb flash image, a .bin file. The information I have is:
-The target processor belongs to Intel's 87c196 family
-The target EEPROM for the .bin file is a 29F200 one
I've tried the IDA and binwalk programs on the .bin, but with no success. Therefore I am going with the manual, hard method. And here is where I want to ask you: how to proceed? Any clues about how to start? I am not able to tell apart code sections from data sections. I have downloaded some user guides for similar chips, but they do not seem to mention this kind of info (where the instructions shall be located on an external memory chip).
Thanks a lot in advance; any little piece of help will be much appreciated.
DISCLAIMER: this is just a learning-purposes project. I am not trying to publish any of my results nor take monetary profit of closed and copy-righted code in any way.