DataFlash

[jasmine at regolith.co.uk]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Andrew Victor wrote:

> hi,
> 
> The attached patch adds support for Atmel DataFlash devices.
> (http://www.atmel.com/products/DataFlash/)
> DataFlash differs from standard NOR flash in that the page sizes are 528
> or 1056 bytes (depending on capacity).  [And no, it's not NAND flash]

No, but the smaller featuresize on those chips means that you must treat 
it like NAND Flash and use ECC on it.  It also has NAND-like restrictions 
on read/write/erase cycles.

My recommendation is to avoid DataFlash in new designs.

-Jas.