Programming 2708's

[lee davison]

> the Intel data book makes it very clear you do have to program
> all locations.

> The unchanged ones have to be reprogrammed with their existing
> contents, you can't skip over them. 

Not true on both counts, you only need to go through the program
cycle for bytes that need to be programmed and if you want to leave
a byte unchanged but still go through the program cycle then you
set the data to $FF as bits can't be programmed high.

What the data sheets say often did differ from the practice, even
on official programmers.

I used to use 2708s in CB to 11m conversions and got away without
the -5v supply by using a lamp to illuminate the chip and generate
the -ve bias photoelectrically, this only worked with one brand of
EPROM though.

Lee.










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