problem saving on SD card using fat16

problem saving on SD card using fat16

Postby Madys » Mon Mar 14, 2016 10:49 pm

I am not sure if this is the place I should post it... Sorry if it is not.
I am new at the forum and PICs too.
I have a 18F4550. I need to save a signal from ADC (150 Hz max) and put it on a SD card. It should be (according to my reaserch) fat16 (or fat32) becouse I need to save that in a file,so I can make/do the processing of the signal with a computer (Matlab). I have tried to use the mmcsd library and the compiler shows errors and I dont know what am I doing wrong...
I am using CCS 4.13 compiler.
Could please somebody help me???
Where can I find an example or something. What I need is:
1-create a file in the SD
2-read the ADC (this I know how to do it :) ) and append the data to the file(there is a funtion for that, I suppouse I am using it wrong)
3-Repeat "2" for 8 hours (another reason to use the SD)
Thank you in advance

pd: Obviously english is not my first language, I hope you to underestand
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Re: problem saving on SD card using fat16

Postby ric » Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:13 am

Is there any particular reason you are using CCS C, rather than the Microchip supported XC8 compiler?
Any old examples from Microchip may be designed for their old C18 compiler.
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Re: problem saving on SD card using fat16

Postby Madys » Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:42 pm

I live in Cuba, here you don´t have many options.. I just copy CSS C 5.3, have not installed it yet... Do you think it will make any difference? Had never heard about XC8 before... My proffesors use CCS C and MikroC.. Thats what we have..
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Re: problem saving on SD card using fat16

Postby vloki » Tue Mar 15, 2016 7:05 pm

ric wrote:Any old examples from Microchip may be designed for their old C18 compiler.

The old microchip MDD examples (C18 compiler) require more RAM than a 4550 can provide.
I tried it last week and you would need a 18Fx6xxx or 18Fx7xxx PIC,

The main reason seems to be that you need several 512 byte RAM regions to handle SD cards.
One for a sector, one for the FAT .... (2k+ bytes)

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Do you have a good internet connection?
You can download MCHP IDE (>500MB), compilers (>80MB), application notes (AN1045) and code examples for free then.

<edit>What about your programmer/debugger? PICkit3 or something?
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problem saving on SD card using fat16

Postby Madys » Thu Mar 17, 2016 5:50 pm

Thanks vloki.
I installed yesterday the 5.(something) version of CCS C and my code, at least compiles without errors and it only uses 25% of memory. I am building right now the programmer to taste it directly on the 18lf4550.
Do you have a good internet connection?

I have been waiting for 40 seconds to open this page... :)
You can download MCHP IDE (>500MB), compilers (>80MB), application notes (AN1045) and code examples for free then

I have 60 Mb a week (yes, I now it most sound crazy, :) )...And even if I had more, USA goverment forbbides laws Cuba to access to some officials webs... I used to enter anyways using free proxys but the university (organism that provides me the internet) blocks them,it is more difficult each day to find a free proxy that has not been block yet.
Hope to find the DC847(need it for the interface with the SD card) soon to taste the program.If it works I will place the code here i case anyone needs it...o I will retorn for help if it does not :D
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Re: problem saving on SD card using fat16

Postby jtemples » Thu Mar 17, 2016 8:18 pm

It should be possible to get FatFS running on an 18F4550. But that assumes XC8 PRO.
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