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>Yet another variant is Flash ROM. I've never been entirely clear on the
>difference between Flash ROM and EEPROM, as they seem to overlap in
>features. Flash is generally characterised by being able to be erased
>and reprogrammed in sectors, while EEPROM is more often bulk erased and
>reprogrammed one byte at a time.
I had the same query re the difference between Flash and EEPROM.
Here is one explanation from http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/E/EEPROM.html:
EEPROM is similar to flash memory
(sometimes called flash EEPROM).
The principal difference is that
EEPROM requires data to be written
or erased one byte at a time whereas
flash memory allows data to be
written or erased in blocks. This
makes flash memory faster.
I find this explanation unconvincing but reading a few data sheets gives some
credence to it. For example, the MC68HC912B32 has both EEPROM and Flash EEPROM
and is described as follows:
The chip is the first microcontroller to include both byte-erasable
EEPROM and Flash EEPROM on the same device.
The Flash chips I have been using lately in another project are 4Mb (512KByte)
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