[Solved] CRC calculation over ROM/Flash range?

allenhuffman · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 4:47 am

Is there a way to get the CRC routines to work over a ROM/Flash range?
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temtronic · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 6:06 am

Not too sure what you mean, but data is data. Every bit of every byte of memory is accessible in any PIC...you can do what you want with it.

Maybe explain better or make me anoth rpot of coffee..still dark and cold here..
Jay

allenhuffman · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 12:09 pm

I thought the hardware architecture might prevent me from accessing it directly? I tried using the CCS CRC routines and giving it a flash address with no success. But it was around 5am after an all night coding session, so maybe I’ll have better luck when I revisit today.

After I program flash, I’d like to run a CRC check of what I programmed and validate it. I can read flash into RAM and check that, which works, but when I try to do the same check to the address it just read, I don’t get the same results.

Maybe I am not understanding the width parameter, and it has to be different when using the flash?
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allenhuffman · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 1:08 pm

Maybe this is what I need:

#ROM address = crc16(start, end) - This will put a value at address that is a crc16 of all the program memory from start to end.

But, I am hoping to find a way to make a routine that will return the CRC of a specified range of Flash, so if we use our boot loader code to put a data table in program memory, dynamically, we can then verify the table after we write it .
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PCM programmer · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 21708

You have the CRC source from this thread:
http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58331
Experiment with that routine and rom pointers.

allenhuffman · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 1:25 pm

Ttelmah · Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 19225

The supplied CRC code is for a buffer in RAM.

However you can 'train' the CRC together.

What you do, is read a block from your ROM. Put this into RAM, and call the
CRC function to get a result. Then read the next block, and put the result from
the first block as the seed for this. Repeat for all the blocks. Result is the
total CRC.

allenhuffman · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 2:43 pm

Thanks. That's how I was having to do it, but I was hoping the HW CRC had a way to just point it at a Flash address and it could do it directly.
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allenhuffman · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 6:09 pm

How does one make the crc routine continue so you can do it over several blocks of memory? I tried passing in the previous crc into the crc_init() like I do in my C version, but that did not produce expected results.
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