floating point value into eeprom??????

[veer]

hi,

i am using ADuC812 which has 2k eeprom, single page containing 4bytes and each byte can be assigned independently .The problem is to write a floating point value into eeprom.i am using keil complier.shld i go for ieee754 format representation or is there any other wayout.

kindly reply,
veer.

 

[C-Man]

Hi,

you could use an union like this

union
{
float value;
unsigned char bytevalue[4];
}variable;

When you want to write your float value to eeprom use a loop like this

for(i=0; i < 4; i++)
eeprom_write(variable.bytevalue);

hope this helps