Kinetis KE04 Flash Access

[martinjaymckee]

I am looking for a small microcontroller to use for board control and the KE04 looks almost perfect.  I'd prefer a built-in reference, but I could make it work.  The size and price are right.  I will need to store about a dozen bytes of calibration data, however, and I can't seem to find confirmation of if one is able to write to flash memory.  I can easily dedicate the last sector in flash for this purpose. I don't really care if it's slow and arduous ( as long as I have sufficient program memory to do it ) so long as it's doable.  It should only need to happen once when the board is first programmed.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Martin Jay McKee

[mjbcswitzerland · Accepted solution]

Hi

The Kinetis KE parts have long word Flash programming and a sector erase size of 512 bytes. Therefore its flash is well suite to storing calibration data.

Regards

Mark

Kinetis: http://www.utasker.com/kinetis.html

KE: http://www.utasker.com/kinetis/FRDM-KE02Z.html / http://www.utasker.com/kinetis/FRDM-KE02Z40M.html / http://www.utasker.com/kinetis/FRDM-KE04Z.html / http://www.utasker.com/kinetis/FRDM-KE06Z.html

Internal Flash and SPI Flash Parameters: http://www.utasker.com/docs/uTasker/uTaskerFileSystem_3.PDF / http://www.utasker.com/docs/uTasker/uTaskerFileSystemSPI_FLASH_003.PDF

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[martinjaymckee]

Thank you.  I was able to find more information and, yes, it looks quite appropriate.  Still need to do some more research as I don't understand the Flash drivers, but at least I'm on the right path now.

Martin Jay McKee