EEPROM MAC Address

When you program the node, a chip erase is required to clear the FLASH. This chip erase also clears the EEPROM. Therefore, it is required to write the MAC address to EEPROM for a particular image after the node is programmed. Though this is an extra step, it still saves the developer from having to recompile all of the code for each image. A single FLASH image can be written to all nodes and the EEPROM-mac-set tool can be used to set MAC addresses stored on EEPROM.

EEPROM-mac-set
EEPROM-mac-set allows you to set the MAC address of the node including a checksum to prevent accidental use of an incorrect MAC address. Inside Nano-RK the MAC address can be read using the read_eeprom_mac_address() function as shown in the example below (from: basic_eeprom project):

uint32_t mac_address;

...

val=read_eeprom_mac_address(&mac_address);
if(val==NRK_OK)
        {
        nrk_kprintf( PSTR("MAC = 0x"));
        printf( "%x",(uint8_t)((mac_address>>24)&0xff));
        printf( "%x",(uint8_t)((mac_address>>16)&0xff));
        printf( "%x",(uint8_t)((mac_address>>8)&0xff));
        printf( "%x\n",(uint8_t)((mac_address & 0xff)));
        }
else
        {
        while(1)
                {
                nrk_kprintf( PSTR( "* ERROR reading MAC address\r\n" ));
                nrk_wait_until_next_period();
                }
        }

The MAC address is then set using the eeprom-mac-set tool located in /nano-RK/tools/EEPROM_mac_set. The below example shows how to set the MAC address to 0x11223344:

agr@shiraz:~/nano-RK/tools> cd EEPROM_mac_set/
agr@shiraz:~/nano-RK/tools/EEPROM_mac_set> ls
main.c  makefile
agr@shiraz:~/nano-RK/tools/EEPROM_mac_set> make
gcc -c -o main.o main.c -I.
gcc -o eeprom-mac-set main.o -I.
agr@shiraz:~/nano-RK/tools/EEPROM_mac_set> ls
eeprom-mac-set  main.c  main.o  makefile
agr@shiraz:~/nano-RK/tools/EEPROM_mac_set> ./eeprom-mac-set 
EEPROM MAC address write utility
1) Set serial port
2) Set and Write MAC addresses
3) Exit
>2

Enter MAC address to be written in the following format:
e.g. 0x11223344 "11 22 33 44"
 or Ctrl-C to exit

Enter MAC [xx xx xx xx] (hex values)
>11 22 33 44
Writing MAC 0x11223344 with checksum 0xaa

Connecting to programmer: .
Found programmer: Id = "AVR ISP"; type = S
    Software Version = 3.8; Hardware Version = 1.2
Programmer supports auto addr increment.
Programmer supports buffered memory access with buffersize=64 bytes.

Programmer supports the following devices:
    Device code: 0x13
    Device code: 0x20
    Device code: 0x28
    Device code: 0x30
    Device code: 0x34
    Device code: 0x38
    Device code: 0x48
    Device code: 0x4c
    Device code: 0x51
    Device code: 0x55
    Device code: 0x56
    Device code: 0x68
    Device code: 0x6c
    Device code: 0x86
    Device code: 0x87
    Device code: 0x01
    Device code: 0x04
    Device code: 0x05
    Device code: 0x06
    Device code: 0x07
    Device code: 0x08
    Device code: 0x09
    Device code: 0x0e
    Device code: 0x1a
    Device code: 0x0f
    Device code: 0x1b
    Device code: 0x14
    Device code: 0x1c
    Device code: 0x1d
    Device code: 0x23
    Device code: 0x31
    Device code: 0x33
    Device code: 0x35
    Device code: 0x37
    Device code: 0x39
    Device code: 0x3d
    Device code: 0x3e
    Device code: 0x57
    Device code: 0x3a
    Device code: 0x3b
    Device code: 0x41
    Device code: 0x43
    Device code: 0x44
    Device code: 0x45
    Device code: 0x46
    Device code: 0x5e
    Device code: 0x60
    Device code: 0x61
    Device code: 0x62
    Device code: 0x63
    Device code: 0x64
    Device code: 0x66
    Device code: 0x69
    Device code: 0x6a
    Device code: 0x72
    Device code: 0x73
    Device code: 0x74
    Device code: 0x75
    Device code: 0x76
    Device code: 0x77
    Device code: 0x78
    Device code: 0x79

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.02s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9704
avrdude: reading input file "0x11 0x22 0x33 0x44 0xaa"
avrdude: writing eeprom (5 bytes):

Writing | ################################################## | 100% 0.10s



avrdude: 5 bytes of eeprom written

avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK

avrdude done.  Thank you.

MAC written
Enter MAC [xx xx xx xx] (hex values)
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