It's a jargon thing.
When your program and constants are in permanent EEPROM you tend to think of
the RAM memory that is lost when the power is off in a different way to an
ordinary computer's RAM.  It is called all sorts of things depending on how
it is used.  Scratch pad RAM is a common name.

It sounds like the RAM area in your microcontroller  can be assigned to be
extra scratch or extra cache.

Bye.

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   #ARI WAHYUDI# [SMTP:PH801819@NTU.EDU.SG]
        Sent:   Wednesday, 12 April 2000 1:40
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        Subject:        Re: [OT]scratch pad RAM

        > From: Alok Dubey [SMTP:adubey@WIPRO.CO.IN]
        >
        > a RAM area used by some monitor routine for its own activity..
        [Wayut]  Thank you for answering..
        But I still can't relate..
        Could you give me a more specific example of the  'monitor routine'
?
        The scratch pad RAM I talk about is part of a microcontroller..
        It has cache area that can also be configured as scratch pad area..

        Regards,

        -ari-

        > > -----Original Message-----
        > > From: #ARI WAHYUDI# [SMTP:PH801819@NTU.EDU.SG]
        > > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 8:45 PM
        > > To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
        > > Subject:      [OT]scratch pad RAM
        > >
        > > Sorry for this off topic question.
        > > But I really need to know..
        > > what scratch pad RAM is..
        > >
        > > Best regards,
        > >
        > > Ari Wahyudi