Flash ATmega328 + SPI

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Foreword: This question is about a project that I am working on with a professor at my university. This is NOT for the class, but my reputation with this professor matters. Therefore, although my success in this project is very important to me, I do not consider it unfair to seek help from Stack Overflow.

However, the high level of my project is presented here . I have an ATmega328 microcontroller. I have a Microchip SST 64 Mbit memory card. ATmega has a hardware implementation of SPI. Flash memory has a hardware implementation of SPI.

My goal is to read data and write data to a flash chip using the ATmega master mode in SPI. The memory is organized in a multilayer structure, which is good for erasing, but for my purposes it is only 32,768 pages of 256 bytes each.

To write data, the main idea is to send an instruction byte, then a start address, then data. For reading data, the main idea is that I send an instruction byte, then a start address, then a dummy byte, and then it starts sending me data.

Here are the data:

Microcontroller: http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc8271.pdf

Flash: http://www.sst.com/dotAsset/40498.pdf

The code:

#include <SPI.h>
#include <Peggy2.h>

#define SS_PIN  16

Peggy2 frame1;
byte toDisp = 0;
byte checker = 0;

void setup()
{
    frame1.HardwareInit();
    pinMode(SS_PIN,OUTPUT); //set pin16 to output, SS pin
    SPI.setClockDivider(SPI_CLOCK_DIV2); //set the SPI clock to f/2, fastest possible
    SPI.begin();    //SPI lib function which sets ddr for SCK and MOSI pin
                    //MISO is auto input
                    //see SPI.cpp for more info

}

void loop()
{

    if(!checker){
                enableProgramming();
        programData();
        toDisp = receiveByte(0);
        checker = 1;
        frame1.WriteRow(0,toDisp);
    }
    frame1.RefreshAll(2);

}

byte receiveByte(unsigned long startAddress)
{
    //Begin High Speed Read Instruction
    //See p. 10 of SST data sheet
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,LOW);
    SPI.transfer(0x0B); //high speed read instruction
    SPI.transfer(0x00); //next 3 transfers are address bits A32 - A0
    SPI.transfer(0x00); //So this will read the first byte on the chip
    SPI.transfer(0x00); //last address bits
    SPI.transfer(0xFF); //dummy byte is required to start sending data back to uP
    SPI.transfer(0xFF); //I'm hoping that if I transfer a bullshit byte, the flash
                        //chip will transfer it data to me in the same time
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,HIGH);
    //End High Speed Read Instruction   
    return SPDR;    
}

//will perform the read instruction starting from
//startAddress and will receive numOfBytes bytes in
//succession
void receiveBytes(int numOfBytes, unsigned long startAddress)
{
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,LOW);
    SPI.transfer(0x0B);//high speed read instruction

}

//will perform:
// 1) Chip Erase
// and loop through:
// 1) Page Program
// 2) increment Page
//until the data has finished **note this can loop and over write beginning of memory
void programData(){
    //Begin ChipErase Instruction
    //See p. 17 of SST data sheet
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,LOW);
    SPI.transfer(0x60);//chip erase instruction
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,HIGH);
    delay(50);//spec'd time for CE to finish
                //don't bother polling because time to program is irrelevant
    //End ChipErase Instruction

        //Begin WREN Instruction
    //See p. 18 of SST data sheet
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,LOW);
    SPI.transfer(0x06);//write enable instruction
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,HIGH);
    //End WREN Instruction

    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,LOW);
    SPI.transfer(0x02); //page program instruction
    SPI.transfer(0x00); //first 8 address bits
    SPI.transfer(0x00); //2nd 8 address bits
    SPI.transfer(0x00); //3rd 8 address bits
    SPI.transfer(0xAA); //10101010 is the byte I should be writing
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,HIGH);
    delayMicroseconds(3000); //wait 3 ms for page program


    /*
    //Begin Page-Program Instruction
    //see p. 13 of SST data sheet
    byte firstAddress = 0;
    byte secondAddress = 0;
    //this loop will write to every byte in the chips memory
    //32,768 pages of 256 bytes = 8,388,608 bytes
    for(unsigned int i = 0; i < 32,768; ++i) //long variable is number of pages
    {
        digitalWrite(SS_PIN,LOW);
        ++secondAddress; //cycles from 0 to 255, counts pages
        firstAddress = i>>8; // floor(i/256)

        SPI.transfer(0x02);//Page-Program instruction byte
        SPI.transfer(firstAddress); //increments every 256 pages i.e. at page 256 this should be 1
        SPI.transfer(secondAddress); //increments every 256 bytes, i.e every page
        SPI.transfer(0x00); //beginning of a page boundary
        for(int j = 0; j < 256; ++j) //number of bytes per page
        {
            SPI.transfer(2program[(256*i) + j]);//data byte transfer            
        }
        digitalWrite(SS_PIN,HIGH);
        delayMicroseconds(2500); //2500us (2.5ms) delay for each page-program instruction to execute
    }
    //End Page-Program Instruction
    */
}

//Will prepare the chip for writing by performing:
// 1) arm the status register
// 2) Write Enable instruction
//Only needs to be performed once!
void enableProgramming(){
    //Begin EWSR & WRSR Instructions
    //See p. 20 of SST data sheet for more info
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,LOW); //lower the SS pin
    SPI.transfer(0x50); //enable write status register instruction
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,HIGH); //raise the SS pin
    delay(10);
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,LOW); //lower the SS pin
    SPI.transfer(0x01); //write the status register instruction
    SPI.transfer(0x00);//value to write to register
                //xx0000xx will remove all block protection
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,HIGH);
    //End EWSR & WRSR Instructions

    //Begin WREN Instruction
    //See p. 18 of SST data sheet
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,LOW);
    SPI.transfer(0x06);//write enable instruction
    digitalWrite(SS_PIN,HIGH);
    //End WREN Instruction

}

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