Enhanced Flash

Hi...
Does anybody can tell me what´s the difference between Enhanced Flash and Flash Micro?

It's probably more 'marketing speak' than anything tangible?.

At least as far as Microchip are concerned the difference is given here

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geko said:

At least as far as Microchip are concerned the difference is given here

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Right, so it's the difference between EEPROM and real FLASH!

When did they change the name to "Enchanced" (from the link above)

Mike.

Pommie said:

When did they change the name to "Enchanced" (from the link above)

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No idea, I hadn't noticed they had!.

But it's all just advertising rubbish anyway.

Originally MicroChip listed their products honestly, as EEPROM, then Atmel started advertising their EEPROM processors as FLASH - because it became the buzzword of the time. MicroChip eventually did the same, and relabelled their EEPROM processors as FLASH.

After a fair while of this both Atmel and MicroChip did start producing actual FLASH devices - although some of the MicroChip ones (even new ones) were still EEPROM - I can't comment on the Atmel ones.

Presumably the MicroChip marketing boys have been busy again?, and 'reinvented' their FLASH devices as 'Enhanced FLASH'.

Perhaps someone should reported them to the advertising standards agency.

I've heard a similar story about Sky broadband advertising the bandwidth as just 16MB, what 16 Mega bytes/bits per second/day month/year? 16MB on it's own is meaningless.

Hero999 said:

Perhaps someone should reported them to the advertising standards agency.

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Not much point, they are very similar things anyway, and it's doubtful that they could do anything.