Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Bryce Schober" <bryce.schober@...> wrote:
>
> I just want to make sure that I'm reading this right before
committing to
> using a serial flash. It seems that the lpc21xx on-chip can't really
be used
> for eeprom emulation in real-time scenarios, since its sector erase
takes
> hundreds of milliseconds and is a blocking function. I guess that's
why some
> of philips' competitors have a separate data flash for such usage.
The price
> point of the lpc21xx doesn't look so good for us, when you have to
tack on
> an extra $1+ for an external SPI flash device.
> 
> --
> Bryce Schober

Also flash update must be done in 16-byte chunks.  Anything less will
result in content corruption because of the way EDC is implemented on
the LPC family.