29 Jan
2009
29 Jan
'09
8:29 a.m.
Mr Ian Primus wrote:
--- On Thu, 1/29/09, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
True. I suppose my primary use is in recycling old EPROMs, so I grab one from
the junk box, erase it, then immediately program it. In that scenario, I'd
just be setting up the EPROM prior to the erase step rather than after it, so
it'd be no more work. In a commercial environment, the usage patterns are
probably different.
Like Dave I've normally found they need somewhere between 15-30 minutes to
erase - it just bugs me sometimes that I might be 'overcooking' the chip by
erasing for too long, so the concept of an intelligent eraser popped into my
head... :-)
cheers
J.
Presumably more expensive erasers do things
in-place - i.e. periodically
do a blank-check during the erase cycle?
...
If a machine like this exists, however, it would be quite cool! But
probably very expensive, and a pain in the neck to use, as you'd have to
tell it what kind of chip you were erasing, and it would need ZIF sockets
and all kinds of electronics to read the chips.