HCFiler - An efficient embedded SDHC FileSystem preview

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Here is a 'sneak peek' of a pre-release version of HCFiler, the SDHC FileSystem which resulted from the discussion in April in the ETH Oberon Mailing list:

https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/obe ... 10537.html

It is intended to be used for data-logging applications that might need to create files with a total size exceeding the 64 MB limit of the standard project Oberon filesystem. The files can subsequently be processed / analysed on a Windows system. However it has other uses e.g. to backup modified Project Oberon files to a Windows PC.

The HCFiler system consists of a set of Oberon modules that are used to create files on the RISC5 system and a Windows application that can read the same files on a PC. When the Windows application starts it automatically detects the removable SDHC card on the PC. We have tested it with a USB SD card adapter.

What you see here is a Windows program which is used to copy the files from the SDHC filesystem to a Windows folder on a PC. The files shown were originally copied from the SDHC Project Oberon partition to the HCFiler filesystem partition. The RISC5 Project Oberon system was running on a Digilent Arty FPGA development board

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This SDHC filesystem can use all of the unused 7.09 GB of the 8 GB SDHC Card beyond the 64 MB Project Oberon partition:

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There is no arbitrary limit on the size of each file or the number of files that can be written. The file system has also been implemented on ARM Cortex-M3, M4 and M7 boards that are supported by Astrobe. The system uses very little resources - the compiled code size is less than 4 KB.

Links to download the Astrobe for Cortex-M3 version are included in the announcement in the Astrobe for Cortex-M3, M4 and M7 forum. Email support at cfbsoftware.com if you want to try out the Astrobe for RISC5 version.