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Padu

Jan 1, 1970
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I'm currently studying the PIC architecture and assembler from the mikro-e
website, and I found it that they sell a compactflash kit as an optional
part of their development kit to be integrated and controlled by the PIC
controller.

Has anybody here gotten such thing? How easy is it to communicate with that
device? My application is very simple: write a file (binary or text) on the
compactflash card that can be read by a PC later. And of course all the
management stuff that involves handling it (is there enough space? is there
a CF card in the drive?)

Thanks

Padu
 
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david

Jan 1, 1970
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Has anybody here gotten such thing? How easy is it to communicate with
that
device? My application is very simple: write a file (binary or text) on
the
compactflash card that can be read by a PC later. And of course all the
management stuff that involves handling it (is there enough space? is
there
a CF card in the drive?)

Thanks

Padu
I did a bit with flash cards and mp3 with a pic my main problem was the
connections to a flashcard and making a pcb with very fine tracks. I did get
the pic to read from the flash card and play music. But this was just
reading bytes and pushing then through an mp3 chip It did not do any house
keeping infact if you deleted the file from the flash card (erasing the fat)
my softwear still played the music as the file was still on card if nothing
else had been written on top. I will look out the files but this was
sometime ago !

David
 
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Ben Jackson

Jan 1, 1970
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I'm currently studying the PIC architecture and assembler from the mikro-e
website, and I found it that they sell a compactflash kit as an optional

I think you'd be better off supporting SD/MMC cards. Youc an get PICs
with hardware SPI interfaces to talk to them. I know nothing about this
company, but a quick googling turns up some example boards:

http://www.compsys1.com/workbench/

Some (with serial and SD slot) sound like they'd be ready to go for a
GPS/NMEA logging app.
 
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