12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
12:12 p.m.
I was perusing DN's "Sherlock Ohms" series when I came across this
article:
http://www.designnews.com/blog/Sherlock_Ohms/15423-
The_Adventure_of_the_Camera_Shy_Computer.php?nid=4785&rid=1504665
Has anyone tried a camera flash as a way of very quickly erasing
EPROMs?
--Chuck
12 Jun
12 Jun
12:41 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I was perusing DN's "Sherlock Ohms"
series when I came across this
article:
http://www.designnews.com/blog/Sherlock_Ohms/15423-
The_Adventure_of_the_Camera_Shy_Computer.php?nid=4785&rid=1504665
Has anyone tried a camera flash as a way of very quickly erasing
EPROMs?
I remember there was an eprom eraser that used a flash tube, but I
haven't seen or heard about it in many, many years.
4:41 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Has anyone tried a camera flash as a way of very
quickly erasing
EPROMs?
A regular camera flash is probably the wrong thing to use, as by design
they don't emit a large amount of short-wave UV.
In the early 1990s, Parallax sold a programmer for the EPROM-based PIC
microcontrollers that had an optional flash tube for quick erase.
Eric
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