Introduction
First some notes from http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_e.html:
FatFs is a generic FAT file system module for small embedded systems. The FatFs is
written in compliance with ANSI C and completely separated from the disk I/O layer.
Therefore it is independent of hardware architecture. It can be incorporated into low
cost microcontrollers, such as AVR, 8051, PIC, ARM, Z80, 68k and etc..., without any
change.
Features:
- Windows compatible FAT file system.
- Platform independent. Easy to port.
- Very small footprint for code and work area.
- Various configuration options:
- Multiple volumes (physical drives and partitions).
- Multiple ANSI/OEM code pages including DBCS.
- Long file name support in ANSI/OEM or Unicode.
- RTOS support.
- Multiple sector size support.
- Read-only, minimized API, I/O buffer and etc...
(Source: FatFs web page)
Hardware
For this project an Altera DE1 Board was used:
Software
At the beginning a very simple PIO implementation is used for the SPI interface
of the SD Card. A write transfer rate of about 75 kBytes/sec was reached with
a Nios II/e running at 100 MHz and a 256 MB SD Card.
The RS-232 (115200, 8, N, 1) port of the DE1 is used for the FatFs test monitor.
Here the di, fi, fm, fs and fl command was used:
If you insert a SD Card, the di 0 and fi 0 commands must be used before
other file system commands. The fm command was used to format the SD Card. For
more information about the test monitor commands use h for help. The following
commands was used for the write performance test:
And the following for the read performance:
Remember, a software SPI is used. With a hardware SPI implementation the performance
can be increased. Here a write/read performance of more than 900 kBytes/sec was reached.
Download
fatfs_de1_sw_spi_20130811
project (software SPI) for the Altera DE1 board (362 KB)
fatfs_de1_hw_spi_20130817
project (hardware SPI) for the Altera DE1 board (372 KB)
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