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NMast.1
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February 8, 2021
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X-NUCLEO-S2868A2 S2LP SIGFOX problem with use of the flash instead of the eeprom for saving the ID and PAC credentials

  • February 8, 2021
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Hi everyone,

I'm doing tests with sigfox using the deboboad X-NUCLEO-S2868A2, and with the example everything works.

However in the final product I will not have an EEprom where to store the sigfox credentials (id and Pac) and therefore I would like to use the flash NVM to do this.

I tried to write in flash the NVM_BoardDataType structure with the fields filled in as follows:

NVM_BoardDataType boardData;

boardData.id = 0x12AA4812;

boardData.rcz = 1;

boardData.pac [0] = 0x00;

boardData.pac [1] = 0x12;

boardData.pac [2] = 0x0F;

boardData.pac [3] = 0x03;

boardData.pac [4] = 0xc9;

boardData.pac [5] = 0x22;

boardData.pac [6] = 0xc6;

boardData.pac [7] = 0xe9;

boardData.freqOffset = 0x02FAF2AA;

boardData.rssiOffset = 0;

boardData.lbtOffset = 0;

uint8_t * P_Data = (uint8_t *) & boardData;

NVM_Write ((uint32_t) 0x0800FF00, sizeof (NVM_BoardDataType), P_Data, NVM_WRITE_MODE_ERASE);

NVM_ConfigType config;

config.nvmType = NVM_TYPE_FLASH;

config.boardDataAddress = 0x0800FF00;

config.sfxDataAddress = 0x0800FF80;

config.messageSequenceNumber = 0;

P_Data = (uint8_t *) & config;

NVM_Write ((uint32_t) 0x0800FF80, sizeof (NVM_ConfigType), P_Data, NVM_WRITE_MODE_ERASE);

The data is saved in flash at the specified address, so I call the ST_Sigfox_Init (...)

In ST_Sigfox_Init (...) there are :

  

nvmConfig.nvmType = NVM_TYPE_FLASH;

 nvmConfig.sfxDataAddress = (uint32_t) FLASH_USER_START_ADDR;

 nvmConfig.boardDataAddress = (uint32_t) FLASH_BOARD_START_ADDR;

 SetNVMInitial (& nvmConfig);

 if (enc_utils_retrieve_data_from_flash (sfxConfig, UID_ADDRESS, UID_LEN)! = 0)

 ret_err = ST_SFX_ERR_CREDENTIALS;

This last call always returns with ST_SFX_ERR_CREDENTIALS ...

What am I doing wrong ?

Should I write the data to flash in another way? Which ?

Do they need to be encrypted?

Thanks a lot to anyone who can help me!

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Nikhil D&K
Associate III
May 30, 2022

Hello,

Did you resolve this issue ?