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Simple doubt with MMC / SD.

 
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Simple doubt with MMC / SD.
PostPosted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:43 am     Reply with quote

Friends,

I need to know if I can connect an MMC / SD card to a microcontroller in order to have a memory expansion.

That is, I have a pic that will do some basic operations, but need to save many values. Can I use a 16F88 connected via SPI to a SD card?

I do not need to read the data on my computer ... the card will only be used to store values of the PIC.

I will use basic functions such as: write, read and delete, nothing more.



My thanks.
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Re: Simple doubt with MMC / SD.
PostPosted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:17 am     Reply with quote

Dave_25152 wrote:
Friends,

I need to know if I can connect an MMC / SD card to a microcontroller in order to have a memory expansion.

That is, I have a pic that will do some basic operations, but need to save many values. Can I use a 16F88 connected via SPI to a SD card?

I do not need to read the data on my computer ... the card will only be used to store values of the PIC.

I will use basic functions such as: write, read and delete, nothing more.



My thanks.


Your main constraint is that you need to write in increments of 512 bytes. This generally leads to the requirement for a PIC with lots of RAM.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:34 am     Reply with quote

Thanks for the reply.

From the moment I have no SRAM, so I wanted to use the MMC / SD card instead.

But I need that much RAM? If you use the code "spi_write ()" PIC does not write the on the SD card?


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:00 am     Reply with quote

Realistically, for 'memory expansion', consider an FRAM chip instead. Advantages, effectively instantaneous write, and 'byte' addressable, rather than having to work in blocks.
Smaller than you can get for a given dollar price than an SD card, but compared to the size of a PIC, even a 1Mbit chip, is a big area of memory.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:08 am     Reply with quote

OK, thank you both.

Then I shall have to await the arrival of RAM ...




With best wishes
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