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- From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin)
- Subject: MC68HC11 trivia
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.135517.28340@news.media.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
- References: <1992Aug29.220411.3485@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 13:55:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug29.220411.3485@hemlock.cray.com> kilian@cray.com
- (Alan Kilian) writes:
-
- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | PART NUMBER | EPROM | ROM | EEPROM | RAM | Comments
- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | MC68HC11A8 | --- | 8K | 512 | 256 | Family built around this device
- | MC68HC11A1 | --- | --- | 512 | 256 | 'A8 with ROM disabled
- | MC68HC11A0 | --- | --- | --- | 256 | 'A8 with ROM and EEPROM disabled
- etc.
-
-
- Motorola won't tell you this, but versions of the 6811 that don't have
- EEPROM (for example, the mc68hc11a0) actually *have* the EEPROM on the
- chip die, and the die didn't pass inspection, so the chip was packaged
- as "6811 without EEPROM."
-
- This means that you can pop the CONFIG register to turn on the EEPROM,
- and voila, the EEPROM is there! I've tried this on a number of
- different chips and it does work. Of course, you shouldn't use this
- EEPROM for mission-critical applications, because it's not up to spec,
- but for a lot of hobbyist applications, it'll work just fine.
-
- - Fred
-