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RE: [AVR-Chat] prevent attiny2313 flash corruption

2009-11-04 by Tim Mitchell

----Original Message----
From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David
VanHorn Sent: 04 November 2009 15:25 To:
AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] prevent
attiny2313 flash corruption 

> Sorry!   Insuficient caffiene errror.
> I was thinking EE, but still most of the same issues
> apply. 
> Writing while the power is failing is a bad idea, as is
> writing while 
> the power is coming up.
> Sometimes, a power supply can have a glitch in its rise,
> such that the 
> power goes invalid again, before it rises all the way.

I presume you're talking about bootloaders here where the flash is being
modified by the software.

Is there a known corruption problem in a simple application which is not
modifying its own flash?

-- 
Tim Mitchell

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