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Another option is to just use one with enough memory to
hold all of the various options.

Jim

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:28:22 -0700
 Ned Konz <bikenomad@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 15, 2006, at 6:10 PM, jme_cd wrote:
> 
> > I am making a robot and want it to be able to do
> different tasks. I
> > would like to be able to do this by storing the
> programs on seperate
> > EEPROM chips and then swapping then depending on what i
> want it to do.
> > How do i call the software on the external chip to run
> as the program
> > rather then storing it on the main controller?
> 
> 
> You could link multiple versions of the program and just
> extract the  
> varying part. To do this you'd need a linker script that
> reserved a  
> fixed part of flash memory for the to-be-loaded program,
> so that the  
> addresses following that program would stay the same.
> 
> You might also want to look at the Turbo SIM project;
> they've come up  
> with an avr-binutils patch that allows loadable
> applications on the  
> AVR (very similar to what you want to do).
> 
> http://www.bladox.com
> 
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> MetaMagix embedded consulting
> MetaMagix@gmail.com
> 
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