Electronic – EEPROM Emulation driver does not work when Page Sizes are 2KB

The short answer is that hardware is inherently unreliable. Something can always in theory go wrong that interrupts the write process or causes the wrong bit to be written.

The long answer is that Flash circuits are usually designed for maximum reliability. A sudden power loss on write will probably not cause corruption because the driver circuit may have enough capacitance or the capability to operate under a low-voltage condition long enough to finish draining the charge as necessary. A power loss on erasure might be trickier, because the high-voltage charge pump needs to complete its job. You really need to consult the manufacturer. The solution is probably just a sufficiently large power supply capacitor.

For a "soft" system reset with no power interruption, it would be pretty surprising if the hardware didn't always completely erase whatever bytes it was immediately working on. Usually the bytes are erased in a predefined order, so you can use the first or last ones to indicate whether a page is full or empty.

Are you trying to maintain integrity of the data with some external entity (for example, if the widget is active then its data is written), or just self-consistency of the data itself? In the latter, more reasonable case, you should focus on marking the successful completion of each write and erase operation within the Flash data stream, so incomplete operations get retried/ignored on reboot no matter the cause of failure.

What Wouter van Ooijen has suggested does perfect sense.

This should work

uint8_t page_counter=0;
uint8_t data_counter=0;
uint8_t last_used_address=0;


while(data_counter<120)  // we want to write 120 bytes
{
  send_eeprom_address(last_used_address);
  while((page_counter++)<64)  // while not end of page
  {
     write_eeprom_byte(y);         
     if (++data_counter==120) break; // exit the loop is 120 bytes have been written
  }
  last_used_address= last_used_address + page_counter;  // update last used location
  if(page_counter==64) page_counter=0;
}

The code is untested, and you obviously need to implement the correct eeprom functions.