home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!fredm
- From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred Martin)
- Subject: Re: 6811s and their EPROM
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.192201.20611@news.media.mit.edu>
- Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
- References: <1992Sep2.104405.15299@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:22:01 GMT
- Lines: 26
-
- In article <1992Sep2.104405.15299@hemlock.cray.com> kilian@cray.com
- (Alan Kilian) writes:
-
- >The reason we are using the "8" seried 6811 chips with just EEPROM is
- >that the 6811 only comes in a plastic case and you can only program
- >the EPROM parts ONCE. You cannot erase them like you can with EEPROM
-
- This isn't quite true.
-
- Motorola makes two packaging styles for the EPROM chips. The "FS"
- package is a ceramic cerquad leaded chip carrier with an erase window
- (this part fits into the same socket at the 52-pin PLCC part). With
- this FS package, you can erase the EPROM, but only by exposing it to
- ultraviolet light. Not quite as convenient as the EEPROM
- (electrically erasable programmable ROM).
-
- If you get an EPROM part in an FN package (plastic leaded chip
- carrier, more commonly known as PLCC), you are buying
- "OTPROM"---One-Time Programmable ROM. Physically, it's the same stuff
- as EPROM, but without an erase window, you only get one chance to burn
- in your program!
-
- - Fred
- --
- Fred Martin | fredm@media.mit.edu | (617) 253-7143 | 20 Ames St. Rm. E15-301
- Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Lab | Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
-