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at91sam7: operating flash
von Roman M. (romez777)

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Hello.

I'm studying how to handle flash by the Atmel's examples and some found
on this site. Atmel provides library implementing the basic functions:
write page in flash, set/clear lock bits and so on.

I observed that the buffer's size passed to routine writing page in
flash is "FLASH_PAGE_SIZE_BYTE / 4", where FLASH_PAGE_SIZE_BYTE is page
size of the flash.

Why is it so? Is it because of 32-bit access to flash? Atmel datasheets
recommend to write the whole pages at once.

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Re: at91sam7: operating flash
von Roman M. (romez777)

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I figured out why it is so, strange I could not get it earlier :) It's
all about the way we access the flash, i.e. by 4-bytes (32 bit). In
other words, we fill out the page NOT with bytes, but with 4-BYTES
blocks, hence the division.

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