Firmware-upgrade functional defection and resurrection

A botched firmware update on a portable power station is no match for persistence, fueled by a passionate user community. The post Firmware-upgrade functional defection and resurrection appeared first on EDN.

  Electronics   Jul 23, 2025   0   9  Add to Reading List
Firmware-upgrade functional defection and resurrection

My first job out of college was with Intel, in the company’s nonvolatile memory division. After an initial couple of years dabbling with specialty EPROMs, I was the first member from that group to move over to the then-embryonic flash memory team to launch the company’s first BootBlock storage device, the 28F001BX. Your part number decode is correct: it was a whopping 1 Mbit (not Gbit!) in capacity <div class= Read Original