> An intelligent (modern) programmer will only burn the location until it
> reads back correctly. This is done to avoid stressing the cells and
> allows more erase cycles. What probably happened is the programmer wrote
> it once, read the location was good, and moved on. For some facinating
> reading, look at the programming algorithms for an EPROM some day....
I've read a lot of ROM/PROM/EPROM/EEPROM programming
algorithms. In my former line of work we used to
run into some very odd (and non-conforming) behavior
with some programmable parts.
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Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 19:52:09 BST