Thanks a lot for the help.
I'll be sure to take a look at it.
I was afraid that the system was going to run out of memory if I expanded
on the program.
Ran into something else I couldn't understand on the schematic.
Not all the VDD and VSS pins of the F4 are connected externally together.
Is there a reason for that?
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:43 PM, glen english <g...@cortexrf.com.au> wrote:
> The F4 flash is organised into sectors,
>
> small, medium, large
>
> the small sectors are organised into small pages, can be erased on their
> own while the micro is running, and are useful in conjunction with a wear
> levelling algorthm for NV memory, I describe below.
>
> I would suggest say choosing a small sector/page for NV.
>
> if you need 64 bytes, use an area of say 4kbytes and store your data in
> consecutive 128 byte lumps.
>
> IE
>
> erase the whole lot
>
> when you need to write settings, write your 64 bytes.
>
> when you need to write again, write into the next 64 bytes
>
> when you need to write again, write into the next 64 bytes
>
> and so on
>
> when you run out of 64 byte chunks (IE you reach the end of the page or
> the sector) and THEN do you trigger a page or sector erase
>
> this minimises flash wear.
>
> for reading, the software just reads the chunks up to where it finds
> erased (0xff) cells , it knows which is most recent
>
> or you can compute a CRC for each say 60 bytes in the top 4 bytes of the
> 64 bytes. if it fails crc check, it is probably an unused block (or a bad
> block where if it is your block you need to read then you'd read out of
> main flash defaults and write them in)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10/03/2018 8:31 AM, David Rowe wrote:
>
>> The EEPROM is not used - plenty of storage on board the stm32f4. Not
>> sure how much memory is being used at run time, but its usually pretty
>> tight. Less than half the flash is being used I think.
>>
>> - David
>>
>> On 10/03/18 02:11, Jacob Falzon wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> If you don't mind, I would also like to ask you regarding the EEPROM.
>>>
>>> Is it currently being used by the board or is it also implemented for
>>> expansion purposes? I thought it might have been used for storing prefences
>>> to be loaded but apparently from the comments its eems to be done from
>>> Flash rather than the external EEPROM.
>>>
>>> If it is used was it implemented because of a lack of on-board memory on
>>> the STM32F4? Might you know how much memory is consumed as the SM1000 is
>>> running and how I could verify it?
>>>
>>> Kindest regards and sorry for any bother.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 9:43 PM, David Rowe <da...@rowetel.com <mailto:
>>> da...@rowetel.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jacob,
>>>
>>> 1/ Test is an unused feature at present, you can treat it like a GPIO
>>>
>>> 2/ We use an opto-isolator so we don't have to provide a switch to
>>> the external radios PTT circuit. An electro-mechanical relay would
>>> have been an alternative. It's usually a mechanical switch on your
>>> PTT mic.
>>> - David
>>>
>>> On 08/03/18 00:22, Jacob Falzon wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>> there are another two pins for the SM1000 that I wanted to know
>>> more about.
>>>
>>> The Test pin connects to a Self-Test circuit. What exactly is
>>> this used to test for please?
>>> Also there is another pin named CPPT that connects to an
>>> optoisolator. I understand that the CPPT signal is used to
>>> trigger the PTT for the radio but why is the opto-isolator
>>> implemented please?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your attention.
>>>
>>> Kindest regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:01 PM, Jacob Falzon
>>> <jacobfalzon2...@gmail.com <mailto:jacobfalzon2...@gmail.com>
>>> <mailto:jacobfalzon2...@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:jacobfalzon2...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your attention.
>>>
>>> Have a good night!
>>>
>>> On 24 Feb 2018 8:26 PM, "David Rowe" <da...@rowetel.com
>>> <mailto:da...@rowetel.com>
>>> <mailto:da...@rowetel.com <mailto:da...@rowetel.com>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jacob,
>>>
>>> These pins are just broken out as GPIOs or for future
>>> expansion.
>>>
>>> - David
>>>
>>> On 25/02/18 00:54, Jacob Falzon wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> i was looking at the schematic and I came upon the
>>> SPI pins
>>> and the UART pins in the schematic.
>>>
>>> The SPI pins ( SCK, MOSI, MISO, NSS) do not seem to
>>> be
>>> connected with an external component. What is their
>>> purpose?
>>>
>>> Also the UART pins whilst available are they
>>> currently
>>> utilised for some purpose?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your kind attention.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
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