Posted on October 20, 2016 at 11:13Hi,
I have the following routine for writing to EEPROM which checks whether the data to be written matches the current EEPROM contents. If there is no match, the EEPROM contents are erased and the new data is written.
// Enable writing to EEPROM
DATA_EEPROM_Unlock();
// Iterate through data to be written, find where it differs from EEPROM
// contentsand only re-program where needed
for ( Index = 0u ; Index < LengthRAM ; ++Index )
{
// Check whether contents of EEPROM already match the data to write
if ( pEEPROM[Index] != pRAM[Index] )
{
// Get the address to write to in EEPROM
uint32_t WordAddress = (uint32_t)&pEEPROM[Index];
TryCount = 0u ;
status = FLASH_ERROR_WRP ;
while ( status != FLASH_COMPLETE )
{
// Clear flash flags
FLASH_ClearFlag(FLASH_FLAG_EOP|FLASH_FLAG_WRPERR | FLASH_FLAG_PGAERR
| FLASH_FLAG_SIZERR | FLASH_FLAG_OPTVERR);
// Erase word in EEPROM
status = DATA_EEPROM_EraseWord( WordAddress ) ;
++TryCount ;
// Check that EEPROM has been erased in a reasonable time
BSP_ASSERT( 10u > TryCount ) ;
}
// Write new data to EEPROM
status = DATA_EEPROM_ProgramWord( WordAddress, pRAM[Index] ) ;
BSP_ASSERT( FLASH_COMPLETE == status ) ;
}
}
Recently the function
DATA_EEPROM_EraseWord()
has been returning
FLASH_ERROR_PROGRAM
on every attempted erase, causing the program to assert a few lines later.
There haven't been any updates to the code responsible for managing the EEPROM, this code was working before, but I have now seen the issue on multiple devices. Is it possible that the EEPROM has been worn out by too may writes? What does the value FLASH_ERROR_PROGRAM signify? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
#eeprom #stm32l152
