Re: TI-H: Another memory expander idea.


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Re: TI-H: Another memory expander idea.




>>>>>If we were to write a driver of sorts, would it
>>>>>necessarily require an ASM shell???  Or another
>>>>>option would be to write a small, non-graphical
>>>>>TI-BASIC program that would basically be a link
>>>>>straight to the ASM code.
>>>This was brought up a while back.  The only problem is that the data would
>>>need to be buffered onto a flash memory chip.  So therefor, after about
>>>10,000 read/writes, you would need to replace the chip.  It may work if you
>>>could do all the buffering through a PIC or AVR?  Anybody on this?
>>
>>Atmel *says* (They said the AVR could do 20MHz also) that their flash will
>>last 1,000,000 writes.
>
>Umm, no, that's only on their low density serial EEPROM, not higher
>density flash.  Flash (no matter what the manufacturer) is still in
>the 10k to 150k rewrite range.  Nonetheless Microchip has some 256
>byte serial EEPROMs that allow 10,000,000 rewrites though.

On the doc for the 4MBit chips used in the EuP it says 1,000,000 writes, Mel.



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