Hey William,

Thanks for the link. That was really helpful.
According to it, they have only 4K memory reserved for Flash in the EEPROM
which is equal to 1K words.

So, going by your suggestion, if I go at writing flash directly for 8K of
data, then I wont have at readily available on power-on right? As far as I
understand, the library doesnt support more than 4K of flash, but then it
shouldnt mean, that 1K is the max memory that can be used as non-volatile
memory , right? I mean, I should be able to write to 8K of non-volatile
memory, since this link here -
http://www.embeddeddesignindia.co.in/ART_8800571198_2800001_TA_102100b4.HTM
says that PIC 8/16-bit has upto 128K of non-volatile memory. AM I correct i=
n
understanding that 4K limitation of EEPROM is a limitation of the library
and not of the PIC32MX family, right?

Regards,
Sid=20

William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
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> On Jul 30, 2011, at 11:25 PM, SidPIC wrote:
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>> Unfortunately I have almost 8K worth of data, which I need to store =20
>> and I
>> dont have another external EEPROM for data storage.
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> There was some discussion about the EEPROM emulation library over in =20
> the chipKit forums.  http://chipkit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3D7&t=3D242
> I don't know whether this is the same (or a similar) EEPROM library as =20
> the one you're using, but the implication is that there is "special =20
> code" used to emulate the significant write cycles of EEPROM in the =20
> PIC32 flash space (which doesn't support nearly so many cycles.)  If =20
> you have 8k of data, you probably need to look at writing flash =20
> directly (and presumably a page-at-a-time.)
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