Re: A real question about EEPROM vs. Flash

Rich Grise wrote:
> So, I'm bidding this ultra-sweet project, and I'm studying the
> data *** of the PIC18F6520/8520/6620/8620/6720/8720, and it
> says, Flash: 100,000 cycles, EEPROM: 1,000,000 cycles. What
> are the other differences? Is flash cheaper than EEPROM? I
> have noticed that it tends to get used for program memory,
> and EEPROM for data, but are there any other differences,
> like, maybe program/cycle time, erase modes, that sort of
> thing?

Betcha you can only do page or block erase for the Flash, but you
should be able to erase and write to single bytes in the EEPROM.

If I wasn't lazy, I'd look that up on the data *** to be sure.

-a

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