FDS Documentation?

[Dave_couling]

Is there anywhere I can find some high level documentation on the FDS module? I'm going thru the API documentation but it provides very little insight into how to best setup an FDS. For example: -How to best organize data into Records? -How to best organize using Files? -What to do you you want to saving small bits of data once a second? Should these be different records, or accumulate before placing in a record?

• Recommended segmentation for a record to account for the overhead of creating one?

Thanks guys

[Julie H]

A lot of these are questions you have to answer for yourself, based on the needs of your application. Your'e correct in that each record has some overhead associated with it, but without knowing the nature of your application, or the importance of not losing any data, I can't figure out how many data points you might want to store per record. You also have to consider that program flash is only good for 10,000 erase cycles, so you need to know how many records per second, and then calculate how long you can keep writing before you wear out the flash.