Tjaart van der Walt wrote:
> You probably want to know why all Microchip parts aren't flash or
> have the bondout pads (present on all the silicon) connected to the
> outside world. I have no idea. Maybe Microchip wants to give their
> competitors a head start. <VVBG> At least, with the future parts
> road map, we can rest assured that Microchip can see about fifty
> years into the future to the time that they will, like everybody
> else, have flash parts and bondout pins. What a relief.

Tjaart,
Are you trying to put my company out of business?  :-0
If MChip made ALL their parts Flash, then NONE of them would work at
high temperatures.  Maybe 50 years into the future when Flash is as
robust as regular EPROM....okay, maybe 5 years.
--Matt