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EEPROM Read/Write

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TucsonDon

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I am using MPLab and MCC on a PIC18F45K22. My question is if I write a float to the eeprom will the address counter increment itself for the four bytes or will I need to use a for loop and advance the address counter?
 
The datasheet doesn't say?

I wish my ARM had an EEPROM. I'm scared of simulating EEPROM using the flash because that's where the program also is lol
 
Well, you could test just by writing something, and reading the address register to see if it's the same as what it was before and lighting up an LED if it is.

I would think it doesn't auto-increment though since I also did not see it anywhere in the datasheet where I would have expected to see it.
 
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It's just you :D

There's only a single write there, the 0x55 and 0xAA are simply to make the write happen.
Yeah I just noticed that was a unlocking sequence. I thought it was weird they overwrote the same thing to the register and then set the WR bit.
 
To answer you question !!

To store a float is easier if you serialise it... A float is 4 bytes so

union{
float x;
unsigned char serialise[4];​
} storefloat;

// writing
for(x = 0;x<4;x++){
writeeeprom(x, storefloat.serialise[x];
eepromwritedelay();​
}

// reading
for(x = 0;x<4;x++){
storefloat.serialise[x] = readeeprom(x );​
}
 
Sorry! I misread the OP... I see what you mean... You want to write all the bytes in one go..

Normally serial eeproms have a "Housekeeping" which means if the eeprom supports page writes an entire page may be written to a scratchpad ( sram) and transferred internally... I do not think the inbuilt EEprom supports page writes on a PIC... So single write may be the only option..
 
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