On 6/27/06, David VanHorn <dvanhorn@microbrix.com> wrote:
> On 6/27/06, William Couture <bcouture@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I can't tell if the people on AVRFREAKS are really that dense, if they are
> > really all 12-year olds, or just that obnoxious.
>
> Why do you feel it has to be ONE of the three?  :)

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.  :)

> Does anyone know where Atmel documents (and if it's not in an engineering
> > parameters table, it's not documented) the FLASH retention lifetime of
> > their ATMega processors?  The ATMega644 in particular?
>
> Unfortunately, Atmel likes to leave a lot of parameters as TBD at least
> until the part is obsolete.

Yah.  There are casual references in other documents that the
lifetime is 20 years, but no engineering data I can find lists it.
And Atmel hasn't replied to my question.

Bill

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