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Write file to flash using uart

lefteris kampianakis

Hello

I am new to embedded programming and i have been trying to transfer a binary file and save it to flash memory using uart. The problem is that i do not know when to stop reading bytes from uart. That is because in my project the files do not have standard size , nor have a special char in the end. Is there any technique for this to be done. I am using keil compiler and a beautifully "datasheeted" c8051f320. The uart ISR for reading the file is the bellow:

INTERRUPT(Uart_Isr, INTERRUPT_UART0)
{
        if(RI0 == 1 ){

                LED = !LED;     //Blink LED  for each input
                RI0 = 0;        //Reset the uart read flag
                byte = SBUF0;                           //Store byte read
                flashBuffer[buffer_counter] = byte;     //save it to a FLASH buffer
                buffer_counter++;
                if(byte == 4){                                  //If End Of Transmition
                        fileTransfered = 1;
                        REN0 = 0;                                       //Disable RX
                }


        }
}

I also used a c script to write 0x4 (End of transmition byte or EOT) in the end of the files to be downloaded(weird but worked if the file had only char data).

Thank you in advance

P.S some more complex expressions dont seem to work , like
flashBuffer[buffer_counter+] = SBUF0;
Meaning that i get my code compiled but the program doesnt work

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    So far so good , i managed to download a binary file using the way described above but my final goal is to get my mCU to run the downloaded binary file. After a lot of googling , and manual reading i haven't quite figured out how this is possible. I cannot just jump to a certain flash memory address nor can i use something like exec() from the rtos libraries (that is also a reason why i tried to use an rtos on my project). Is there any standard way to do this , do i have to use the rtos , can flash be used for such reasons or do i have to write extra code to retrieve code lines from flash and transfer them to code mem and then execute?
    Thanks in advance

    P.S I didn't post this on a new thread because i re-mentioned the problem above.

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    So far so good , i managed to download a binary file using the way described above but my final goal is to get my mCU to run the downloaded binary file. After a lot of googling , and manual reading i haven't quite figured out how this is possible. I cannot just jump to a certain flash memory address nor can i use something like exec() from the rtos libraries (that is also a reason why i tried to use an rtos on my project). Is there any standard way to do this , do i have to use the rtos , can flash be used for such reasons or do i have to write extra code to retrieve code lines from flash and transfer them to code mem and then execute?
    Thanks in advance

    P.S I didn't post this on a new thread because i re-mentioned the problem above.

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