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Re: Flash Write Cycles
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lugnet.robotics.nxt
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Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:55:52 GMT
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> According to what I have read, putting the AT91SAM7S processor in system
> recovery mode (i.e., by resetting it via the hardware reset button or by
> programmatically putting it into firmware boot mode) loads SAM-BA into
flash
Are you sure of this John? It seems like the reset button would be for dire
circumstances and would do something different than the firmware boot mode.
The spec says this about SAMBA loading:
"To enter SAM-BA Boot Recovery, the TST pin and the PA0, PA1 and PA2 pins
should be tied high."
I would assume that this is what the reset pin does. Although, maybe it is
firmware controlled since there is the > 3 sec hold time.
> when SAM-BA is loaded into flash memory it unlocks the first two pages of • flash
> memory and then it relocks those two pages.
Do you know why it does this? The spec says that SAMBA copies itself into
RAM and runs from there. I'm sure this is done so that it can overwrite its
flash image with the firmware being downloaded. However, I don't understand
why it would relock the first two sectors unless it assumes that there is a
user boot program in the firmware download.
> But I have heard from a very reliable source that ATMEL has measured lock • bit
> read/write cycles at up to 7500 under normal temperature conditions
If this is true, I vote we all shut up - or maybe I should just shut up :-)
David Wallace
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| (...) I am not 100% sure but I am pretty sure based on a number of discussions that I have been involved with during the MUP2/MDP. To the best of my knowledge a clicking brick (however it got into that state) is a brick running SAM-BA in flash with (...) (18 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| (...) [...] (...) According to what I have read, putting the AT91SAM7S processor in system recovery mode (i.e., by resetting it via the hardware reset button or by programmatically putting it into firmware boot mode) loads SAM-BA into flash and when (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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