EEPROM Clear
The microcontroller on the Arduino and Genuino boards have 512 bytes of EEPROM: memory whose values are kept when the board is turned off (like a tiny hard drive).
This example illustrates how to set of all of those bytes to 0, initializing them to hold new information, using the EEPROM.write() function.
Hardware Required
- Arduino or Genuino Board
Circuit
There is no circuit for this example.
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Schematics
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Code
/*
* EEPROM Clear
*
* Sets all of the bytes of the EEPROM to 0.
* Please see eeprom_iteration for a more in depth
* look at how to traverse the EEPROM.
*
* This example code is in the public domain.
*/
#include <EEPROM.h>
void setup() {
// initialize the LED pin as an output.
pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
/***
Iterate through each byte of the EEPROM storage.
Larger AVR processors have larger EEPROM sizes, E.g:
- Arduno Duemilanove: 512b EEPROM storage.
- Arduino Uno: 1kb EEPROM storage.
- Arduino Mega: 4kb EEPROM storage.
Rather than hard-coding the length, you should use the pre-provided length function.
This will make your code portable to all AVR processors.
***/
for (int i = 0 ; i < EEPROM.length() ; i++) {
EEPROM.write(i, 0);
}
// turn the LED on when we're done
digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
}
void loop() {
/** Empty loop. **/
}
* EEPROM Clear
*
* Sets all of the bytes of the EEPROM to 0.
* Please see eeprom_iteration for a more in depth
* look at how to traverse the EEPROM.
*
* This example code is in the public domain.
*/
#include <EEPROM.h>
void setup() {
// initialize the LED pin as an output.
pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
/***
Iterate through each byte of the EEPROM storage.
Larger AVR processors have larger EEPROM sizes, E.g:
- Arduno Duemilanove: 512b EEPROM storage.
- Arduino Uno: 1kb EEPROM storage.
- Arduino Mega: 4kb EEPROM storage.
Rather than hard-coding the length, you should use the pre-provided length function.
This will make your code portable to all AVR processors.
***/
for (int i = 0 ; i < EEPROM.length() ; i++) {
EEPROM.write(i, 0);
}
// turn the LED on when we're done
digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
}
void loop() {
/** Empty loop. **/
}
See also
- EEPROM.write()
- if()
- EEPROM library reference
- EEPROM Write – Stores values read from A0 into EEPROM.
- EEPROM Crc – Calculates the CRC of EEPROM contents as if it was an array.
- EEPROM Iteration – Programming examples on how to go through the EEPROM memory locations.
- EEPROM Put – Put values in EEPROM using variable semantics (differs from EEPROM.write() ).
- EEPROM Get – Get values from EEPROM and prints as float on serial.
- EEPROM Update – Stores values read from A0 into EEPROM, writing the value only if different, to increase EEPROM life.
Last revision 2018/05/17 by SM