I've been programming my pic like mad the past few weeks, some days doing 50 or more flashes to the chip using an on chip serial boot loader.
How firm is Microchip's 100,000 write rating on their flash rom? I worry about it being grosely overstated, kind of like hard drive MTBF's (300,000 hours my arse!)
similarlly, is the EEPROM really good for 1 million writes, or is it just a few tens of thousands?
what happens when the flash or prom is no longer writeable, does the chip tell you, or just pretend to be writing ... is there a writes counter or something?
How firm is Microchip's 100,000 write rating on their flash rom? I worry about it being grosely overstated, kind of like hard drive MTBF's (300,000 hours my arse!)
similarlly, is the EEPROM really good for 1 million writes, or is it just a few tens of thousands?
what happens when the flash or prom is no longer writeable, does the chip tell you, or just pretend to be writing ... is there a writes counter or something?