Hello everybody,
I have the problem that I cannot update the content in my internal flash without erasing the whole segment before the write operation. This requires me to store the whole segment beforehand, updating the content in the buffer and then writing back the whole segment.
The segment I am writing to is in information memory defined by (I typecast it to a pointer later):
const static uint16_t FLASH_SEGMENT_1 = 0x1000;
so it should not be a problem with LOCKA.
The functions that I am using are:
// inits the flash
void Internal_Flash::init()
{
FCTL2 = FWKEY + FSSEL0 + FN1;// + FN3; // FLASH CLK= MCLK/3 = 1200/3 = 400 KHZ : MSP430AFE233
}
// erases a flash segment
void Internal_Flash::erase_sector(uint8_t* const address)
{
FCTL3 = FWKEY; // Clear Lock bit
FCTL1 = FWKEY + ERASE; // Set Erase bit
*address = 0; // Dummy write to erase Flash seg
FCTL1 = FWKEY; // Clear WRT bit
FCTL3 = FWKEY + LOCK; // Set LOCK bit
}
// writes bytes to flash
void Internal_Flash::write(uint8_t* address, const uint8_t* buf, const uint8_t len)
{
// _DINT();
// assert that buffer is not too large
assert(len <= FLASH_SEGMENT_SIZE);
FCTL3 = FWKEY; // Clear Lock bit
FCTL1 = FWKEY + WRT; // Set WRT bit for write operation
for (uint8_t i = 0; i < len; i++)
{
*address++ = *buf++; // Write value to flash
}
FCTL1 = FWKEY; // Clear WRT bit
FCTL3 = FWKEY + LOCK; // Set LOCK bit
// _EINT();
}
Calling erase_sector() always succeeds, but the write() command only updates the flash if erase_sector() was called before, e.g.:
// erase flash segment
int_flash->erase_sector((uint8_t*)Internal_Flash::FLASH_SEGMENT_1);
// write device name
int_flash->write((uint8_t*)Internal_Flash::FLASH_SEGMENT_1, "TEST", 4);
I already tried to disable enable interrupts while calling write() and I switched the clock timing for the flash, but nothin seems to work.
Thank you a lot for any help!
Stefan
