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Must calibration data reside in flash segment INFO A ?

Started by distantship101 April 15, 2009
Hi,

I have a question about the calibration data in flash segment INFO A (MSP430F2xx devices). Are these values used "internally" (i.e. directly used by some modules) or only when explicitly accessed by my code ? That is, can I decide to store them somewhere else and store other data in INFO A instead, or is it mandatory to keep them in INFO A ?

Thanks,

Beginning Microcontrollers with the MSP430

TI made the calibrations and stored them in Info-A. It is up to the programmer to explicitly read them and apply them. (Or, ignore them, erase them, do anything with them, ...)

"header files" may know the addresses of TI assigned calibration constants and defined symbolic names for them. Many "sample code" and "application" use those symbolic addresses, thus end up accessing from Info-A.

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> I have a question about the calibration data in flash segment INFO A (MSP430F2xx devices). Are these values used "internally" (i.e. directly used by some modules) or only when explicitly accessed by my code ? That is, can I decide to store them somewhere else and store other data in INFO A instead, or is it mandatory to keep them in INFO A ?
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> Thanks,
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