Eric Smith <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Maybe someone from Microchip would care to comment on how their
> Flash technology works?

Eric:

Microchip's "flash" is just EEPROM without the byte-select
transistor, which is why their memory density is so low... Each
Microchip flash cell is ten to fifteen times the size of a "real"
flash cell (i.e., a "NAND" or "DiNOR" cell as used in most flash
memory chips).

It's likely that Microchip will achieve higher densities in the
future, though, since Atmel (who use a similar "EE-Flash" technology
in their microcontrollers) already make cells that are half the size
of Microchip's.

-Andy

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