I understand that the more exposure a UV erasable device has to
UV radiation, the longer it take to erase the cells.

Bill

NEIL GANDLER wrote:
>
>         My pic16c74 is taking an incredible long time to erase
> in my Dataerase II from digikey, which I heard was one of the best
> I can buy. It needs almost two full 8 minute cycles to completely
> erase its contents. I have to test to see if its erased by prompting
> my ITU programmer software to read the contents of the eprom code into a file
> and verifying that all memory is erased. I am making sure
> that when setting the fuses to set code protection bits high (off)
> Any hints or advice?
>
>                 Neil Gandler