RAM Problem with PIC16F877A

[garg29]

pic16f877a ram

Hi guys,
i'm trying to learn gsm modem communicatin with microcontroller(pic16f877). in 'C' laguage.

I'm able to receive sms through gsm modem but only first few characters. I am defining a string as
Code:
unsigned char sms[50];
but if i try to increase the no. of characters and for that i try to define Code:
unsigned char sms[90];
i get the following errors:- Quote:
Error[491] : can't find 0x85 words for psect "rbss_0" in segment "BANK0"
Error[491] : can't find 0x7 words for psect "temp" in segment "COMBANK"
Error[593] : can't find 0x2 words (0x2 withtotal) for psect "code_ptr" in segment "BANK0"



i tried using different bank Code:
bank1 unsigned char sms[90];
but i still get the same resultts

Please help me out.

With best regards,
Garg

 

[namqn]

for psect code_ptr in segment bank0

PIC16F877A has 4 RAM banks, in which the top 16 bytes of each are mapped to the same address. Therefore, bank 0 and bank 1 have only 80 contiguous bytes of general purpose RAM, and bank 2 and bank 3 have only 96 contiguous bytes of general purpose RAM.

For your array of 90 bytes of RAM, you could try bank 2 or bank 3.

Cheers,

 

[garg29]

pic16f877 bank ram

thanks for your reply can u please tell me how can i split one array in 2 different banks.
Thanks once again.

 

[namqn]

pic16f877a size of banks

I don't think you should spread your array over 2 banks. Can you not use 2 arrays?

Cheers,

 

[user1111]

psect pic16f877 bank

put your data in other bank 1,2,or 3