EEPROM CRC
The microcontroller on the Arduino and Genuino boards have 512 bytes of EEPROM: memory whose values are kept when the board is turned off (like a tiny hard drive).
A CRC is a simple way of checking whether data has changed or become corrupted. This example calculates a CRC value directly on the EEPROM values. This CRC is like a signature and any change in the calculated CRC means a change in the stored data. The purpose of this example is to highlight how the EEPROM object can be used just like an array.
Hardware Required
- Arduino or Genuino Board
Circuit
There is no circuit for this example.
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Schematics
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Code
Written by Christopher Andrews.
CRC algorithm generated by pycrc, MIT licence ( https://github.com/tpircher/pycrc ).
A CRC is a simple way of checking whether data has changed or become corrupted.
This example calculates a CRC value directly on the EEPROM values.
The purpose of this example is to highlight how the EEPROM object can be used just like an array.
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#include <Arduino.h>
#include <EEPROM.h>
void setup() {
//Start serial
Serial.begin(9600);
while (!Serial) {
; // wait for serial port to connect. Needed for native USB port only
}
//Print length of data to run CRC on.
Serial.print("EEPROM length: ");
Serial.println(EEPROM.length());
//Print the result of calling eeprom_crc()
Serial.print("CRC32 of EEPROM data: 0x");
Serial.println(eeprom_crc(), HEX);
Serial.print("\n\nDone!");
}
void loop() {
/* Empty loop */
}
unsigned long eeprom_crc(void) {
const unsigned long crc_table[16] = {
0x00000000, 0x1db71064, 0x3b6e20c8, 0x26d930ac,
0x76dc4190, 0x6b6b51f4, 0x4db26158, 0x5005713c,
0xedb88320, 0xf00f9344, 0xd6d6a3e8, 0xcb61b38c,
0x9b64c2b0, 0x86d3d2d4, 0xa00ae278, 0xbdbdf21c
};
unsigned long crc = ~0L;
for (int index = 0 ; index < EEPROM.length() ; ++index) {
crc = crc_table[(crc ^ EEPROM[index]) & 0x0f] ^ (crc >> 4);
crc = crc_table[(crc ^ (EEPROM[index] >> 4)) & 0x0f] ^ (crc >> 4);
crc = ~crc;
}
return crc;
}
See also
- EEPROM.read()
- EEPROM library reference
- EEPROM Clear - Fills the content of the EEPROM memory with “0”.
- EEPROM Read – Reads values stored into EEPROM and prints them on Serial.
- EEPROM Write – Stores values read from A0 into EEPROM.
- EEPROM Iteration – Programming examples on how to go through the EEPROM memory locations.
- EEPROM Put – Put values in EEPROM using variable semantics (differs from EEPROM.write() ).
- EEPROM Get – Get values from EEPROM and prints as float on serial.
- EEPROM Update – Stores values read from A0 into EEPROM, writing the value only if different, to increase EEPROM life.
Last revision 2018/05/17 by SM
