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14 years ago

SLOW Flash write and erase

Using the HAL function alt_write_flash(..) it takes appr. 2100 mSec to write one block of 131072 bytes to a Numonyx 1 Gbit flash with 1024 blocks. I am writing to block 1007. Same problem with al...
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14 years ago

I am using a Numonyx Axcell PC28F00AP33EF-65nm 1 GBit Flash memory. According to Program and Erase characteristics I see that erase time for a 128 KByte block is typ 800 mSec which fits my measurements. Then perhaps programming times are as expected as well.

I guess I will look into "Buffered Programming" in the datasheet and/or put my code in a dedicated thread then.Thanks for your comment.

Best regards K2