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06/09/11 16:00
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#182558 - As long as intervening RESET
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Dynamically controlling the EA line should work for most cases I know of as long as you subject the MCU to a reset after each desired state change of the EA line.

It is true, as you noted in your edited comment, that an acess to an address that goes higher than the extent of the interal flash would become an access to external memory --- AS LONG AS the MCU in question actuially has external BUS support. Many of today's MCUs do not have any external BUS support and in theses cases you could get several types of behaviors for accesses outside the internal memory space size. In some cases for these accesses will simply ignore the higher address bits aand the accesses will redundantly decode to the internal code space. On others accesses like that can lead to erratic of undefined behavior and could result in crash of the MCU till a reset.

Michael Karas


List of 21 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Bootloading using external RAM and EA switching?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Not sufficient!            01/01/70 00:00      
      Use single SRAM chip by tying PSEN to RD?            01/01/70 00:00      
         That qualifies as...            01/01/70 00:00      
            Experimentation ;)            01/01/70 00:00      
               No need for experimentation            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Fast-forward to 2010 or thereabouts            01/01/70 00:00      
                     It would be a pretty narrow window, but ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                        methinks the real reason            01/01/70 00:00      
                           That's true for program updates, but ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                           visualizing any case where the regular ISP/IAP is too slow            01/01/70 00:00      
                              ... and FRAM's pretty fast, too ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Would have liked to have used FRAM...            01/01/70 00:00      
   As long as intervening RESET            01/01/70 00:00      
   do You need EA controlled?            01/01/70 00:00      
      hmm            01/01/70 00:00      
         not surprised            01/01/70 00:00      
         Decided not to use EA (rather, shouldn't)            01/01/70 00:00      
            i'm confused by AT89S52            01/01/70 00:00      
               This is the page I found            01/01/70 00:00      
                  great            01/01/70 00:00      

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