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How to interface flash memory cards to microcontroller for external memory excess? - partha pabbu - Aug 1 12:41:13 2006
Re: How to interface flash memory cards to microcontroller for external memory excess? - BobG...@aol.com - Aug 1 13:12:24 2006
Can you plz gude for this question. How to interface flash memory cards to microcontroller
for external memory excess?
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Usually they have a serial interface that uses a clock line and a data line. Most
microcontrrollers have an SPI interface that automatically shifts out the clock and data,
but it is also possible to write a subroutine that shifts each bit out and sets the clk
line hi then lo for each bit (usually called 'bitbanging'). So just study the data sheet
for the memory card and the microcontroller to see which lines need to connect to what on
the memory card, then write subroutines to so the low level read write functions described
in the datashett... read a sector, write a sector... usually just a loop of reading or
writing 524 bytes, or however many bytes in the memory card block. Sound easy so far?
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(You need to be a member of m68hc11 -- send a blank email to m68hc11-subscribe@yahoogroups.com )Re: How to interface flash memory cards to microcontroller for external memory excess? - David Kelly - Aug 1 14:24:02 2006
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:08:18PM -0400, B...@aol.com wrote:
> > Can you plz gude for this question. How to interface flash memory
> > cards to microcontroller for external memory excess?
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> Usually they have a serial interface that uses a clock line and a data
> line.
That is true for many FLASH storage chips such as the Atmel AT45DB011.
FLASH memory cards such as Compact Flash have a parallel bus interface
which is a 50 pin version of PCMCIA which is similar to a 16 bit ISA bus
but with working hot swap and plug-and-play.
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David Kelly N4HHE, d...@HiWAAY.net
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