Hey Volks! I have expanded the RAM from my Arduino Mega 2560 from 8 to 40kb with an 32kb SRAM. I have set the XMEM Registers in the program and edited the boards.txt from the arduino ide so that the max memory is now 40kb. I want to use the arduino ide and as a test I declared an int array with the size of 16000. I put the index as the data for each array element. In the last step I iterate with a for loop thru the array and send the data of the elements via serial to the arduino ide terminal. Nearly all the results in the teminal look like expexted but around the adresses of the end of the internal RAM the data in the array just give out random numbers. I think its because i just expanded the memory size in the Arduino boards.txt from 8 to 40kb. It seems that the mcu reserves the stack as normal variable space. Does somebody get what i did wrong or how i can link the external memory in the arduino ide properly? Thank you for your time!! :)
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One description of using external RAM is here: http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/malloc.html If you want total flexibility, you need to learn about linker scripts. Together with section-attributes On variables, you can control what Gose where. But not typically Arduino, but, you already attached external memory, so you are Not a newby ;-) Sorry for spelling, but iPad likes TO write German ;-)
Thank you I will have a look at the site. Yeah i am also German so no problem ;) Thank you! :)
I really would like to understand and see how such thing like ram expansion can be done. Maybe when time allows you can show details with pictures and explanations... (I dont mean spi ram or similiar) Peter
http://andybrown.me.uk/2011/08/28/512kb-sram-expansion-for-the-arduino-mega-design/ This Tutorial gave me a very good entry point. The RAM from the mega 2560 can easily be expanded (up to 64kb) with an SRAM chip and an octal tri state latch with d-latch in it. In the Tutorial is everything mentioned what you need to expand the RAM except of setting the registers for letting the MCU know what you are doing ;) this can be read in the official documentations of the Mega 2560. The linker stuff is also not mentioned in the Tutorial ^^ Thats why I was asking here ;) Have fun Peter! :)
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