Post by thread:News from today's mail

Went through my mail today and discovered that: 1) Franklin Software, Inc., have dropped their plans to introduce a C compiler for the PIC. No big surprise. 2) Microchip's Corporate Marketing Communications group reads the PICLIST... The newest issue of MicroScope includes a short unattributed quote from the PICLIST and a whole paragraph from Myke Predko (who's referred to as an "unsolicited customer"... Pretty funny). 3) Microchip have apparently renamed the 16C84A... As far as I can tell, it's now called the 16F84. The "F", I guess, will eventually mean "Flash", but for now, the parts are all EEPROM. I'd really like to know what the deal is with these parts (and whether the eventual flash parts will use regular EEPROM for the high-endurance data memory). Anyone know? -Andy Andrew Warren - spam_OUTfastfwdTakeThisOuTix.netcom.com Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499

Relative to .... #2 - A lot of us in the factory read PICLIST and some actually contribute some worthwhile info from time to time. #3 - Since the word "Flash" has become a generic term for many circuit and process variations of electrically eraseable and reprogrammable memories; several micro vendors are calling their EEPROM program memory technology "Flash". I personally like the term "Byte Block Flash" ;) because it is more descriptive than just "Flash". Naturally, we could tell you our future technology roadmap, but then we would have to kill you. The data memories will continue to be implemented in EEPROM technology. Rgds, Brian. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: News from today's mail Author: Andrew Warren <.....fastfwdKILLspam@spam@IX.NETCOM.COM> at Internet_Exchange Date: 7/29/96 4:20 PM Went through my mail today and discovered that: 1) Franklin Software, Inc., have dropped their plans to introduce a C compiler for the PIC. No big surprise. 2) Microchip's Corporate Marketing Communications group reads the PICLIST... The newest issue of MicroScope includes a short unattributed quote from the PICLIST and a whole paragraph from Myke Predko (who's referred to as an "unsolicited customer"... Pretty funny). 3) Microchip have apparently renamed the 16C84A... As far as I can tell, it's now called the 16F84. The "F", I guess, will eventually mean "Flash", but for now, the parts are all EEPROM. I'd really like to know what the deal is with these parts (and whether the eventual flash parts will use regular EEPROM for the high-endurance data memory). Anyone know? -Andy Andrew Warren - fastfwdKILLspamix.netcom.com Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499

Brian Boles <.....PICLISTKILLspam.....MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote: > A lot of us in the factory read PICLIST and some actually > contribute some worthwhile info from time to time. Brian: Yes, but this was the first time any quotes from the PICLIST were quoted in MicroScope. > Since the word "Flash" has become a generic term for many circuit > and process variations of electrically eraseable and reprogrammable > memories; several micro vendors are calling their EEPROM program > memory technology "Flash". So Microchip is just going to go along with this silliness? Geez... Next, you'll be telling us that distributor-programmed EPROM is the same as masked ROM. > The data memories will continue to be implemented in EEPROM > technology. Cool. Thanks for the info. -Andy Andrew Warren - EraseMEfastfwdspam_OUTTakeThisOuTix.netcom.com Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499