Yes, it can.  Use the same procedure for declaring the data as you would for a
'84.  The only difference is that you have a lot bigger EEPROM internally now.

Andy










Josh Koffman <joshy@MB.SYMPATICO.CA> on 05/03/2000 02:27:35 PM

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Greetings all.
I have yet another question. Someday I hope to be able to ask non stupid
questions, like that whole 24 bit adc thread...wow that's over my head.
Anyways :)

I am curious as to whether the data storage memory on the 16f877 can be
programmed in a programmer. I think the memory on a 16f84 can. The
reason I want to do this is in my current project, eventually the user
will be able to store information to the eeprom for later recall. I am
trying to build this project in little steps so that when I get to the
end and it doesn't work, I will know what parts work, and hopefully be
able to solve everything. I don't want to implement the eeprom writing
yet, but I want to test to see if I can read it properly and act on the
information I get back from it. Is there any way to store data in the
eeprom without having a whole bunch of eeprom writes at the beginning of
my program? That just seems like it will take up a whole bunch of code,
plus if it doesn't work I won't know where my problem is, in the reading
or the writing. Thank you in advance for your help!

Josh Koffman
joshy@mb.sympatico.ca