I have read in the manual that a PICaxe can be programmed about 100000 times. The program is in FLASH memory and this seems to be the limit for FLASH devices. My question is "is there any difference between the FLASH memory where the program goes and the EEPROM memory where you can stuff data"? I suspect not. If so, that seems to imply that you can only peek and poke data into a particular address 100000 times. So if I set up a weather station and peek and poke data once a minute my simple math seems to imply that I'll burn out that address in 100000/60/24/2 = 35 days. That doesn't seem very practical. Even if I do it once every 10 minutes it's still only a year.
If I burn out that address, what happens? Does the entire chip die or just that address? Can I just move on and burn out another address or do I go buy a new chip? Do you get any warning or is there a sudden puff of smoke as the chip goes up in flames?
If I burn out that address, what happens? Does the entire chip die or just that address? Can I just move on and burn out another address or do I go buy a new chip? Do you get any warning or is there a sudden puff of smoke as the chip goes up in flames?