# Loading Hexagon Images

## Overview

This chapter describes how Hexagon binary images are loaded onto the
hardware debug platform.

Note

On many target systems, when the target device comes out of
reset, its ARM core is the one that runs. The ARM is used to load
code for the device’s other cores into memory.

## Script files

TRACE32 supports the use of a scripting language (named PRACTICE) to
enable the automated execution of a sequence of commands. A script
file is used to load Hexagon binary images into the hardware debug
platform.

The load script files are dependent on the target system.

Note

Predefined load script files are provided with each target
system – users do not have to create these files or modify them.

For more information on load script files see the document
training\_practice.pdf in the Lauterbach TRACE32 documentation.

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