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I'm curious just how they're tested, and is every unit tested before it goes
out? I have never heard of that happening either.

Zack

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Tim Mitchell <tim@sabretechnology.co.uk>wrote:

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> AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com <AVR-Chat%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re:
> [AVR-Chat] Re:
> Mega128 apparently losing programming
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> > It obviously sounds like they were never programmed in
> > the first place.
> > Maybe they slipped through. Is there any E^2 or RTC that
> > was supposed to be programmed too? Is that there?
>
> Well that's how it sounds to me too. I think there must have been some
> mixup somewhere along the line, as they are totally convinced that they
> were all tested. There's no eeprom or anything to check, just flash and
> fuse bits. Atmel say that while it would be theoretically possible to
> "accidentally" generate a flash erase command by zapping the SPI pins,
> there's no way you'd get the fuse bits going back to factory defaults
> without specifically programming them to those settings (the application
> settings are a lot different to the defaults).
>
> I just thought I would ask if anyone in the wider world had heard of
> such a "memory loss" happening.
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> Tim Mitchell
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