Tag
flash-memory
- Mar 20, 2025 Erase Granularity, Write Ordering, and Power Loss During a Flash Write Why a firmware update cannot be made atomic at the byte level, how sector granularity dictates the update algorithm, and what a partially erased sector actually contains. embedded systems
- Jan 10, 2025 Flash Wait States and the Cost of Fetching Instructions from Embedded Flash Why an on-chip flash array cannot feed a fast core at one word per cycle, how wait states and prefetch buffers change that, and where the timing stops being uniform. embedded systems