PRELIMINARY

Chapter 1

Introduction

The TMS320F20x/F24x digital signal processors (DSPs) contain on-chip flash EEPROM (electrically-erasable programmable read-only memory). The em- bedded flash memory provides an attractive alternative to masked program ROM. Like ROM, flash memory is nonvolatile, but it has an advantage over ROM: in-systemreprogrammability.

This chapter discusses basic flash memory technology, introduces the flash memory module of the 'F20x/F24x DSP, and lists the benefits of flash memory embedded in a DSP chip.

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Basic Concepts of Flash Memory Technology

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TMS320F20x/F24x Flash Module

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1.3

Benefits of Embedded Flash Memory in a DSP System

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Texas Instruments TMS320F20x/F24x DSP manual Introduction