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The Arduino is an easy prototyping platform in which the hardware is very simple to use and to be connected with any other system. The programing environment is also very easy to start with and has lot of built-in functions for every simple and complex task. In this project the Arduino pro-mini board is used which is then programmed with the help of Arduino IDE version 1.0.3 on windows operating system. The image of the Arduino pro-mini board and the Arduino IDE is shown in the following;
Another hardware which can perform the USB to TTL conversion is used to upload the program into the arduino board.
It is assumed that the reader has gone through the project how to get started with the arduino and done all the things discussed in it. The Arduino pro-mini board has ATMEGA328 microcontroller inside it which has an internal EEPROM memory of 1Kb. The Arduino IDE provides a library called <EEPROM.h> which provides functions to access the built-in EEPROM of the Arduino board’s microcontroller. The code written for this project also makes use of few functions from the <EEPROM.h> to read and write the built-in EEPROM. The functions are namely EEPROM.write() and EEPROM.read() and the details of those functions are discussed in the following section.
EEPROM.write()
The function EEPROM.write() is used to write a data byte into a particular address of the EEPROM memory mentioned by the parameters passed to the function. The function has two parameters where the first one should be provided with the address of the EEPROM location into which the data need to be written into and the second parameter should be provided with actual data byte. For example if the data ‘A’ need to be written into the address mentioned by the variable ‘addr’ the following statement can be used.
EEPROM.write(addr, ‘A’);
EEPROM.read()
The function EEPROM.read() is used to read a particular data byte from the internal EEPROM of the Arduino’s microcontroller. The function has a single parameter which is the address from which the data should be read from. The function has a return value which is the actual data byte which it read from the address mentioned by the parameter passed into it. For example if the data byte is to be read from the location mentioned by the variable ‘addr’ the following statement can be used.
EEPROM.read(addr);
THE CODE
The code written for this project can write a value 100 into the memory address 30 of the EEPROM and tries to read the value from the same location. The functions EEPROM.write() and EEPROM.read() from the library <EEPROM.h> are used for EEPROM writing and reading respectively. Both the value written into the location and read from the location is shown in a 16*2 LCD with the help of functions from the library <LiquidCrystal.h>. Few functions from the library <LiquidCrystal.h> including those which are used in this particular project are already discussed in the previous projects on how to interface an LCD, how to display sensor value on LCD, how to connect the LCD with the PC and how to make an LCD scrolling display. The code displays the data which is written into the EEPROM in the first line of the 16*2 LCD and the data which is read back from the same location in the second line of the LCD. Once the display on the second line of the 16*2 LCD is done the code starts blinking an LED connected to the pin number 6 continuously with the help of pinMode(), delay() and digitalWrite() functions explained in the previous projects on how to start with Arduino and how to use digital input and output of arduino.
When the coding is finished one can verify and upload the code to the Arduino board as explained in the project how to get started with the Arduino and can verify with the help of the LCD display whether the value written into a memory location of the EEPROM and the value read from the same location matches or not.
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