S32K144: FlexRAM as Emulated EEPROM Initial Values?

[mahmoudsherrah]

I succeeded in configuring FlexRAM as emulated EEPROM and it is working as expected. I only wanted to know how to set initial values in this EEPROM.

I tried to do the following (struct initialization):

typedef struct

{
      uint8_t u8;

      uin16_t u16;
} eeerom_data_t;

__attribute__ ((section(".eeeprom"))) eeerom_data_t eeerom_data = {.u8 = 12, .u16 = 3456};

But unfortunately didn't work, I think because the FlexRAM area is set to 1's on flashing the software to S32K144.

Is there any way to achieve initial values of FlexRAM as emulated EEPROM? Thanks

[danielmartynek · Accepted solution]

Hi,
The system should not access the data in FlexRAM until the flash controller completes the initialization indicated by the FCNFG[EEERDY] flag.
If you need to have the EEPROM initialized, copy the data from Flash once the EEPROM is ready.

Regards,
Daniel

[mahmoudsherrah]

Unfortunately, this wastes program memory but I assume it's not that big of an issue. I also think this is the only way to do it. Thanks anyway.

[danielmartynek]

Hi,

In AN12130, there is:

If your programmer/debugger supports scripting, you can use a script to check the EEERDY flag and to write the data.
But this is not a question on the MCU but rather on the programmer.

Regards,
Daniel

[mahmoudsherrah]

Thanks for the link. It's interesting but as you said it is programmer work not SW. I think copying from flash to FlexRAM after EEERDY does the trick.