Re: TI-H: 64MBit expander
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Re: TI-H: 64MBit expander
64 megabits is different than 64 megabytes. 64 megabits is in actuality
8 megabytes, since 8 bits is equal to a byte. (2^3 power)
> 64 or 32 Mb? Why all that space? It would seem better to build a smaller
> one to save money.
>
> But since your using such large amounts of flash memory (for a calculator)
> will there be some way to find and the identifying bad parts in the memory.
> That way if part of the flash ram is rewritten too many times (and so
> damaging that part of the memory) it can be detected and a part of the
> memory could be used to hold the location of bad parts. This way the
> memory could still be used when only a small part of it goes bad. The only
> problem I see to this method is that it would slow down writing to the
> flash ram ( this feature would only have to be used for writing operations)
>
> I hope this comes out for the TI-86 and it sounds like a good idea.
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> > From: Sami Khawam <a9501901@unet.univie.ac.at>
> > To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> > Subject: TI-H: 64MBit expander
> > Date: Wednesday, July 02, 1997 6:09 PM
> >
> > There is a basic designed of a new expander
> > on my page. Take a look at it, it hasn't
> > been yet finished.
> >
> > --
> > Sami Khawam
> > sKhawam@bigfoot.com
> > a9501901@unet.univie.ac.at
> > http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a9501901
> >
>
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