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Re: [AVR-Chat] Atmega8 - is the EEPROM safe to rely on?

2005-04-05 by Mike Harrison

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 12:16:27 +0100, you wrote:

>
>Hi,
>
>I remember problems with EEPROM address zero corruption with previous 
>AVRs - it looks like accidently writing to the atmega8 would be difficult. 
>Apart from loss of power during a write, is there any other problem to be 
>aware of with the newer chips?

Atmel say the zero address issue is fixed, but I still occasionally hear that Atmel eeprom can be
corrupted in some brownout situations if there is no brown-out reset provided.

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