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Good Afternoon,
for my project i was thinking to implement external eeprom instead of arduino eeprom because I have at disposition 1.000.000 of write cycle instead of 100.000.

then before to write a post (how ever I've tried to look inside google) and I've found this: topic
http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/arduino-external-eeprom

Code:

#include <Wire.h>   
 
#define disk1 0x50    //Address of 24LC256 eeprom chip
 
void setup(void)
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  Wire.begin(); 
 
  unsigned int address = 0;
 
  writeEEPROM(disk1, address, 123);  // eeprom is at the 0x50, add of memory 0 and data 123
  Serial.print(readEEPROM(disk1, address), DEC);
}
 
void loop(){}
 
void writeEEPROM(int deviceaddress, unsigned int eeaddress, byte data )
{
  Wire.beginTransmission(deviceaddress);
  Wire.write((int)(eeaddress >> 8));   // MSB
  Wire.write((int)(eeaddress & 0xFF)); // LSB
  Wire.write(data);
  Wire.endTransmission();
 
  delay(5);
}
 
byte readEEPROM(int deviceaddress, unsigned int eeaddress )
{
  byte rdata = 0xFF;
 
  Wire.beginTransmission(deviceaddress);
  Wire.write((int)(eeaddress >> 8));   // MSB
  Wire.write((int)(eeaddress & 0xFF)); // LSB
  Wire.endTransmission();
 
  Wire.requestFrom(deviceaddress,1);
 
  if (Wire.available()) rdata = Wire.read();
 
  return rdata;
}

This line of code what are means ?:

Code:

 Wire.write((int)(eeaddress >> 8));   // What are means ?
  Wire.write((int)(eeaddress & 0xFF)); // What are means ?

and this

Code:

 Wire.write((int)(eeaddress >> 8));   //   What are means ?
  Wire.write((int)(eeaddress & 0xFF)); // What are means ?

  Wire.requestFrom(deviceaddress,1);  //What are means ?

Looking the example is not more easy like write and read Arduino Eeprom ... so my question is:

Is there some library that I can use in order to use "external eeprom" easily as "arduino eeprom" ?

Thanks 10000 for support,
Gnux
 

[Reply #1 on:]

External EEPROM is typically accessed via an SPI or I2C interface. Your example appears to be using I2C interface:  #include <Wire.h>
Both send out addresses and data as 8-bit numbers (a byte).

This a 16 bit address
  unsigned int address = 0;

This breaks it up into 2 bytes and sends it out:

 Wire.write((int)(eeaddress >> 8 ));   //   If the address was 0x1234, this shifts the 12 over 8 bit positions and sends it out
  Wire.write((int)(eeaddress & 0xFF)); // This masks off the 12, so that only 34 is left and sends it out.

Another way to perform this would be:
 Wire.write((int)(highByte(eeaddress));
Wire.write((int)(lowByte(eeaddress));

This is setting up the address that will be read from.

This tells the device to send 1 byte.  deviceaddress will be the EEPROMs I2C bus address; typically the lowest bit of the address will be 0 or 1 to tell the device a read or write is occurring;
  Wire.requestFrom(deviceaddress,1);  //What are means ?

  Wire.write(data);  will send data to the device

Wire.read();  will read the data the device sends

[Reply #2 on:]

this link will help you understand what's going on here;

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/bitwise_operators.html

[Reply #3 on:]

That link only  helps for the >> 8 question.
The main question was understanding I2C operation.