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16 years ago

Writing to EPCS sectors

Hello, all,

I have been struggling with this and I hope someone can shead some light.

My project has a 3C25 along with a EPCS16 device. I would like to write some data to the EPCS16 somewhere around sector 20.

Every time I try to write I end up with data being written to sector 0.

I should also mention that I am using the block erase, write_block

and read epcs functions

I noticed that the alt_epcs_flash_write_block function in the in the

altera_avalon_epcs_flash_controller.c has the following comments:

/* Write, assuming that someone has kindly erased the appropriate

* sector(s).

* Note: "block_offset" is the base of the current erase block.

* "data_offset" is the absolute address (from the 0-base of this

* device's memory) of the beginning of the write-destination.

* This device has no need for "block_offset", but it's included for

* function type compatibility.

*/

I am concerned about the part of the comment that says the device has no

need for block offset. Like I said I want to erase and write to sector 20.

alt_epcs_flash_write_block(alt_flash_dev* flash_info, int block_offset,

int data_offset, const void* data,

int length)

I am setting the int block_offset to 20.

Thanks for any suggestions.

JTA1

2 Replies

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    Altera_Forum
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    Hey jta1,

    "erase block" is different than "sector/block". There are frequently only 1 or 2 erase blocks on most any flash device, whereas the number of sectors depends upon the sector size (commonly 128k or 64k) and overall size of the flash.

    In your case, I think you should set the "block_offset" to 0 and the data_offset to 20*sector_size....0x280000 (128k sector_size), 0x140000 (64k sector_size). I don't recall exactly what the sector size is for an EPCS 16 device, but I'm pretty sure you can look it up :-)

    Cheers, and Good luck!

    - slacker
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    Altera_Forum
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    Slacker,

    Thanks for the quick reply. I am now able to read and write sector 20.

    Thanks again,

    JTA