program memory

[aortiz557]

hey, just wanted to know if anyone knew how to define a value in program memory instead of ram. i am making a driver for a ks0108 lcd, and need to store the font files somewhere. i suppose the alternative would be using the spi flash, but i want to avoid that for now if i can.

[Berni]

The XMOS chips only have RAM memory inside them while the external SPI flash is accessed manually by sending read/write commands to it as there is no hardware external memory interface.

You have 64KB of memory to work with while a 8x8 pixel monochrome font for the entire ASCII palette is about 2KB only.

[aortiz557]

aha! that makes perfect sense. thank you very much.

[Folknology]

Well the fonts could go into the OTP memory, just remember its permanent!

regards
Al