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Hello. I am new to ANT and I'm in the early stages of developing a new product around ANT. I had a question I've been unable to find an answer to. Any help from the group will be appreciated.

If I directly attach an EEPROM to the ANT module as shown in the reference designs (they call out an "M95XX" type EEPROM), will I be able to access the contents of this EEPROM from the host MCU considering there is no direct connection between the host MCU and the EEPROM? I plan to use an MSP430 and I would like to allow the ANT to log to the EEPROM as well as use the file transfer functions, etc, but it would also be great if I can send commands to the ANT module from the host MCU to cause it to store arbitrary information in the EEPROM or to query that information.

Is this a simple process or are there any other details I should consider?

Thank you again in advance!
-K      

Yes, you should be able to access the EEPROM without having the MCU directly connected to it. You can find more details in the Integrated ANT-FS Interface Control Document
http://www.thisisant.com/developer/resources/downloads/#documents_tab

Section 3 gives an overview of the file system, and Section 6.3 describes the File System Requests, which involve write/read access to the EEPROM.

Please be aware that not all ANT solutions support the Integrated ANT-FS feature - only the CC257x does
http://www.thisisant.com/developer/components/cc2570/
http://www.thisisant.com/developer/components/cc2571/
http://www.thisisant.com/developer/components/c7-modules/      

Thank you Alejandra. Very much appreciated!