No offence intended, but if you are developing code and spending 500 hours doing try-modify-burn cycles, is this some sort of software engineering by guesswork? :-) Martin > > No, > > I believe he is saying that they are the same TYPE of memory, but > > the data section is optimised for more read / write cycles. Hence > > the same programming spec, but different endurance. There is no > > real need for 1M programming cycles on program memory, but 10k > > would be a bit limiting on data memory. > > > > Martin > > err, ummm, i believe some of the dead bugs in my dead bug box > are there because i (re)programmed them to death. after all, > at 3 minutes for a try-modify-burn cycle, thats only (!) 500 > hours per pic. the IDE lets me cut half a minute off that, > so thats less than 500 hours on a f877. > > alice > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: "[PIC]:" PIC only "[EE]:" engineering "[OT]:" off topic "[AD]:" ad's