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Is it possible to expand program memory in BS2p

ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2003-05-29 14:49 in General Discussion
All-
I am interested in expanding the memory available to programs (beyond the
built-in
memory) in a BS2P. Alternatively, what I am might be able to do is have multiple

programs (think program slots beyond the number of program slots available
within
the BS2P. Is that at all possible, and can anyone point to a reference on how
to
accomplish the deed.
-Thanks.

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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-05-29 04:21
    It is not possible to increase the program space of any BASIC Stamp. You may
    divide your program across banks, using the Scratchpad RAM to pass data back
    and forth between them. There's a Nuts & Volts article on our web site that
    goes into details of multi-bank programming.

    -- Jon Williams
    -- Parallax

    In a message dated 5/28/2003 9:51:17 PM Central Standard Time,
    marpetm@s... writes:

    > All-
    > I am interested in expanding the memory available to programs (beyond the
    > built-in
    > memory) in a BS2P. Alternatively, what I am might be able to do is have
    > multiple
    > programs (think program slots beyond the number of program slots available
    > within
    > the BS2P. Is that at all possible, and can anyone point to a reference on
    > how to
    > accomplish the deed.
    > -Thanks.
    >



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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-05-29 14:49
    One possibility would be to down-load on-the-fly a new program into
    one of the existing 'program slots' on the BS2p. I'm sure this would
    be difficult, and you'd have to stop the BS2p program to accomplish
    it. Might be easier just to have a SECOND Bs2p co-processor.

    Note there do exist other modules (like Javelin) which have more
    eeprom and more RAM on module.

    --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "mmarpet" <marpetm@s...> wrote:
    > All-
    > I am interested in expanding the memory available to programs
    (beyond the built-in
    > memory) in a BS2P. Alternatively, what I am might be able to do is
    have multiple
    > programs (think program slots beyond the number of program slots
    available within
    > the BS2P. Is that at all possible, and can anyone point to a
    reference on how to
    > accomplish the deed.
    > -Thanks.
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