Help Simplifying an FRAM example code

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Mohammed Al-Amin

5 years ago.

Hello,

I've been trying rack my brain around understanding how to store data externally like a datalog.

Essentially I have a fuel gauge which tells me how many cycles of charge the battery has undertaken, but when the unit gets switched off I lose that data.

I was thinking I should save that data on an external FRAM chip we have, which is an MB85RS64 (Adafruit module), remarkably the example code works which I have gotten from:

https://os.mbed.com/components/Fujitsu-SPI-FRAM-MB85RSxx/

but I do not understand how to simplify it down to a few things I need I wanted to store the following data:

Number of Charges: (the number has decimals too)

Run time: Seconds, Minutes, Hours & days

Number of times the unit been switched off

The example code so far has arrays which I do not understand properly if someone can explain that bit in layman's terms would be very helpful. Also, how would I store strings of words or numbers to this type of FRAM and how much data do you think I can store for a 64Kbit / 8KByte.

I have attached the code and tried to comment bits to understand I may have commented wrongly but would be helpful if anyone can point out. Also, I noticed the while loop doesn't continue too which I do not know why?

main.

#include "mbed.h"
#include "MB85RSxx_SPI.h"

DigitalOut myled(LED1);
Serial pc(USBTX, USBRX);

//#if defined(TARGET_LPC1768)
//MB85RSxx_SPI fram(p5, p6, p7, p8); // mosi, miso, sclk, cs
//#elif defined(TARGET_LPC1114)
//MB85RSxx_SPI fram(dp2, dp1, dp6, dp9); // mosi, miso, sclk, cs
//#else // Arduino R3 Shield form factor
MB85RSxx_SPI fram(D11, D12, D13, D10); // mosi, miso, sclk, cs
//#endif

int main()
{
    uint8_t buf[16];
    uint32_t address;

    pc.baud(115200);
    pc.printf("\nFujitsu MB85RSxxx FRAM test program\n\n");

    // Read device ID and detect memory density for addressing
    fram.read_device_id(buf);
    pc.printf("read device ID = 0x%x 0x%x 0x%x 0x%x\n", buf[0], buf[1], buf[2], buf[3]);

    fram.write_enable();
    pc.printf("read status (WREN) = 0x%x\n", fram.read_status());

    fram.write_disable();
    pc.printf("read status (WRDI) = 0x%x\n", fram.read_status());

    // Write 0 data
    fram.write_enable();
    fram.fill(0, 1, 256);

    // Prepare write data
    for (int i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
        buf[i] = i;
    }
//========================================================
//============ Write Data To FRAM ========================
//========================================================

    // Write data with write enable
    fram.write_enable();
    fram.write(0x00, buf, 16);

    // Attempt to write data (not written)
    fram.write(0x10, buf, 16);

    // Write data with write enable
    fram.write_enable();
    fram.write(0x20, buf, 16);

//========================================================
//============= Read Data From FRAM ======================
//========================================================

    // Read data
    for (address = 0; address < 0x80; address += 16) {
        fram.read(address, buf, 16);
        pc.printf("%08X : ", address);
        for (int i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
            pc.printf("%02X ", buf[i]);
        }
        pc.printf("\n");
    }
//========================================================
//============ Write a Number to address ================
//========================================================
    // Write number from 0 to 255
    pc.printf("\n");
    for (address = 0; address < 0x100; address++) {
        fram.write_enable();
        fram.write(address, (uint8_t)address);
    }
    
//========================================================
//============ Read From Address Location ================
//========================================================
    
    // Read data
    for (address = 0; address < 0x100; address += 16) {
        fram.read(address, buf, 16);
        pc.printf("%08X : ", address);
        for (int i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
            pc.printf("%02X ", buf[i]);
        }
        pc.printf("\n");
    }

    while(1) {
        myled = 1;
        wait(1);
        myled = 0;
        wait(1);
    }
}

I hope to hear from you soon!

Mohammed Al-Amin

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