Game cartridges are perhaps the hardiest of all common storage schemes. Short of blunt traumatic force or application of electrical surges to the cartridge’s edge connectors, damaging a game cartridge ...

Flash memory is the king today. Our microcontrollers have it embedded on the die. Phones, tablets, and computers run from flash. If you need re-writable long term storage, flash is the way to go. It ...

EPROM, unlike PROM and OTP can be erased. Early devices used strong ultraviolet light and would reset the entire chip back to its unprogrammed state. The UV light enables charge on a floating gate to ...

Unlike EPROM chips, EEPROMs do not need to be removed from the computer to be modified. However, an EEPROM chip has to be erased and reprogrammed in its entirety, not selectively. It also has a ...

Almost all AVR microcontrollers have built-in Electrically Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM).The advantage of EEPROM is that even when the microcontroller is turned off, data stored in ...

Turn on the EMP-20 Programmer (in back). There is a power light next to the ZIF socket (Zero Insertion Force) and the ZIF’s handle should be straight up. Set the "T" switch on the shelf next to the ...

The type of memory a designer selects for an embedded project drives overall system operation and performance, so obviously this is a very important decision. Whether the system runs on batteries or ...

This is a useful addition to my previous article “Arduino EEPROM”. The article is still available. I have provided a link here for convenience https://www.edn.com ...