O, I misunderstood.  I thought you were saying that OTPs HAD to be
hardcoded by Microchip, and that self programming wasnt an option.

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Mr and Mrs James Paul wrote:

>  What do you mean what gives.   What you say is true.  I didn't
>  say anything contrary to that, did I?  If I did, I didn't mean
>  to.
>
> >On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Mr and Mrs James Paul wrote:
> >
> >>  OTP parts are really EPROM devices without a window to erase
> >>  them.  ROM parts are actually Masked ROM parts.  You have to
> >>  send your code to Microchip, and they hard code it into the
> >>  part.  The result of this is that the parts are much cheaper
> >>  than using OTP parts, if you have enough volume to justify the
> >>  initial setup costs.  Hope this helps.
> >>
> >
> >What?
> >I thought that you could program OTPs yourself, but you just couldnt erase
>
> >it once you did.  What gives?
> >
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