I2C Smart Card memory

[Ioannis]

OK, I tried $A0 and sure seems that this is the correct value.

But, there is another issue.

Writing say 1024 bytes and doing write/verify is succesful, if power is cycled, the read data is wrong and the same value. Either 16,255 or 0.

Ioannis

[aerostar]

Many moons ago I bought some of the blank memory cards, and I THINK I got them from.........Crownhill !!!

Perhaps you could drop Lester a line and see if they did supply these cards at one time.

I never did get round to using them, but I did write on one card the pinout, but nothing about the address and I cannot see in my pdfs any data sheet for these.

C1 5v , C3 SCL, C5 GROUND, C7 SDA. C2,C4,C6,C8 NO CONNECTS.

From what I remember, the memory inside was 24lc16, and there are 8 banks of 256 bytes, so if your card is the same you have to write in blocks of upto 256 per block then change to next bank.
The control I use for 24LC16
RBANK0 CON %10100000 'CONTROL CODE OF MEM IC FIRST 256BYTES
RBANK1 CON %10100010
RBANK2 CON %10100100
RBANK3 CON %10100110
RBANK4 CON %10101000
RBANK5 CON %10101010
RBANK6 CON %10101100
RBANK7 CON %10101110

Also remember the need for pullups.

[Ioannis]

Thanks for the info.

The card that I post a photo seems to respond correctly as an 64K address EEPROM.

I write and read just fine. Only when I cycle its power, the date is lost.

It has to do I think with the page write but cannot find a way to control that.

Ioannis

[pedja089]

For test, try to write single byte every time, and wait 5ms, between each write.
That would eliminate page write issue.

[Ioannis]

As long as the power is on, data appears to be written.

Including the one byte test. But if card is removed and re-inserted, data gets lost.

Ioannis

[pedja089]

Then that doesn't have anything with page write.
Just guessing, maybe there are only some serial number permanently stored in eeprom, and other location are unimplemented?

[Ioannis]

It is very bizzare that it seems to write succesfully in every location for as long as the power is ON.

I'll some more tests and report back.

I have also available a couple of SLE4442 but have never tried that for writing.

Ioannis