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#159133 - An EEPROM is an EPROM Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Christoph Franck said:
It's an EEPROM, not an EPROM. EEPROM is just a type of EPROM - the type where the erasing is done Electrically (as opposed to erasing by UV light, for instance) "EPROM" is the more general term; without further qualification, it just means any type of Eraseable Programmable Read-Only Memory Two specific types of EPROM are: Note that "Flash" is a specific type of electrical erasure technology Note also that "EEPROM" is sometimes used idiomatically to indicate a device specifically designed for data storage - as opposed to code storage... |