RE: [avr-gcc-list] external memory on atmega128l

[Geir Tore Olsen]

Hi There!

I see from your example that you enable the external ram in the main file.
That is way too late. You need to enable the external ram in .init1 section
(i think it's the .init1 section, not 100% sure tho), I.E before the
initialization code that copies data from the flash into the .data section
and before the .bss section is zeroed out. There should be documented at:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/avr-libc/doc/avr-libc-user-manual/

Check out the Related pages, Memory sections

Best Regards gtoo

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Subject: [avr-gcc-list] external memory on atmega128l


hello,

we are using avr-gcc (GCC) 3.3 20020905 with atmega128l and amic
lp62s2048x-70llt external memory.

we are experiencing problems with the external memory access. these
problems seem to increase when options such as -fno-inline-funcions
-Wall and -O6 are used.

if someone who has been using external meory successfully could give us
some hints we would be very glad.




jb



here's an example without waitstates...


#include <avr/io.h>
#include <avr/iom128.h>

#define BUF_ADDR 0x1100
#define BUF_SIZE 0xFFFF - BUF_ADDR

int main( void )
{
  s32 i;
  volatile u8 *xbuffer;

  //disable interrupts
  cli();

  sbi (MCUCR, SRE);      //enable xsram at the very beginning
                         //   to be able to place .bss and .data there
  cbi (XMCRB, XMBK);     //bus-keeper

  cbi(XMCRA, SRW11);
  cbi(MCUCR, SRW10);

  sbi(DDRF, 7);
  cbi(PORTF, 7);

  xbuffer = (u8 *) BUF_ADDR;

   while (1){

    for (i=0; i<BUF_SIZE; i++){
      xbuffer[i]=0xFF;
      if (xbuffer[i]!=0xFF){
        sbi(PORTF, 7);
        cbi(PORTF, 7);
      }
      xbuffer[i]=0x00;
      if (xbuffer[i]!=0x00){
        sbi(PORTF, 7);
        cbi(PORTF, 7);
      }
    }
  }

 return 0;
}




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