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Difference between Erase Sector and Page

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by brattchess on Fri Mar 13 23:37:08 MST 2015
Hello,

I understand the concept of erase sector but what is a page?
I supose that it is a zone of a sector, which is its size?
And when we erase a sector, will be the values of a sector  0x00?
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Content originally posted in LPCWare by brattchess on Wed Mar 18 02:53:48 MST 2015
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Content originally posted in LPCWare by R2D2 on Sat Mar 14 01:38:15 MST 2015

Quote: brattchess
I understand the concept of erase sector but what is a page?
I supose that it is a zone of a sector, which is its size?



User manual 10398:



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26.3.6 Flash configuration for LPC1100XL series

In addition, parts in the LPC1100XL series support a page erase command. The following
table shows the correspondence between page numbers, sector numbers, and memory addresses for LPC1100XL devices.

[color=#f00]The size of a sector is 4 kB, the size of a page is 256 Byte[/color]. One sector contains 16 pages.




Quote: brattchess
And when we erase a sector, will be the values of a sector  0x00?



No, it's 0xFF  :O
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