Revision as of 18:27, 3 February 2015

Introduction

In this tutorial we will study how to use internal EEPROM of the AVR. EEPROM is generally used when some kind of permanent storage in real time is requried. The ATmega32 contains 1024 bytes of data EEPROM memory. It is organized as a separate data space.

For demonstration we will use UART. So, it is recomended to go through UART tutorials first.

EEPROM Registers

EEDR (EEPROM Data Register)

EEDR
D7	D6	D5	D4	D3	D2	D1	D0
MSB							LSB

EECR (EEPROM Data Register)

EECR
D7	D6	D5	D4	D3	D2	D1	D0
-	-	-	-	EERIE	EEMWE	EEWE	EERE

EEAR (EEPROM Address Register) (EEARH and EEARL)

EEAR
15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8
-	-	-	-	-	-	EEAR9	EEAR8
7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
EEAR7	EEAR6	EEAR5	EEAR4	EEAR3	EEAR2	EEAR1	EEAR0

Code

Since we are using UART for the demo, we will write a program to write a string at 0x00 location and read it again.

The main.c code is shown below, the complete code can be downloaded at the end.

For both writing a string to the EEPROM and reading a string from EEPROM we will use two variables viz., EEPROM Address (to store string or to read string from) and string address ( write_string and read_string in the code below).

#include <avr\io.h>    // io.h contains the defnition of all ports and SFRs //
#include "uart.h"	 //User defined UART library which contains the UART routines
#include "eeprom.h"   //User defined library which contains eeprom routines
 
/* start of the main program */
void main() 
{
  unsigned int eeprom_address=0x00;
  unsigned char write_string[] = {"Hello World"}, read_string[15];
 
  /* Initialize the Uart before Transmitting/Receiving any data */
    UART_Init();
 
   while(1)
    {
         UART_TxString("\n\rWrite : ");                      //Print the message on UART
         UART_TxString(write_string);                       //Print the String to be written 
         EEPROM_WriteString(eeprom_address,write_string);  // Write the String at memory Location 0x00
         UART_TxString("\tRead : ");   //Print the message on UART
         EEPROM_ReadString(eeprom_address,read_string);   // Read the String from memory Location 0x00	
         UART_TxString(read_string);  //Print the read String
     }		
  }

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