Lpc2000

a quick comment! You are saving to flash 10 times every second; 
therefore, you can do 10,000 seconds (FLASH life is 100,000 erases, 
I think). 10,000 seconds = about 3 hours!!!

Is that right or I didn't really understand it?

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "firegenie1980" <firegenie1980@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Im trying to write a value, actually a large array of 8-bit 
> integers, from RAM to FLASH so that I can access this array after 
> the power has been removed and re-applied at a later date.
> 
> The values from the array will be either:
> 
> A: Wrote to RAM then copied straight into FLASH during each pass. 
> This will require the process to take less than 0.05ms as the 
> function that produces the values is called every 0.1ms.
> 
> B: Totally filled up, then copied over to FLASH some other way if 
a 
> speed of 0.05ms is unobtainable. Probably over-running my tick 
> interval.
> 
> If anyone has any useful information on this it would be very much 
> appreciated. This is my first time using the FLASH memory directly 
> and so I'm very much in the dark on this one! I know I need to set 
> up an area of FLASH for this array, but how to do this and how to 
> access it is a mystery to me, and I am finding it hard to find 
> examples on the internet that might help me.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> FG