On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:13:47AM +0100, Davison, Lee wrote:
>
> >>I have a couple of "ultraviolet" LEDs with me, but I doubt they are the
> >>right frequency to erase EPROMs.
>
> > If they're the high power UV LEDs then they should work. A friend of
> > mine uses those to erase his EPROMs and the erase time is about the same
> > as for a UV light.
>
> There are not yet available UV LEDs that radiate at short enough wavelength
> to erase EPROMs in a reasonable time. Most EPROMs will start to erase at
> <400nm but take hours of exposure, to erase an EPROM in 20 mins or so needs
> 12mW/cm^2 of 257nm light on the die face. The longer wavelengths just warm
> the chip up a bit.
I will have to check, but IIRC, my LEDs are 450nm.
-ethan
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