Sector erase – Samsung S3F80JB User Manual

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EMBEDDED FLASH MEMORY INTERFACE

S3F80JB

15-8

SECTOR ERASE

User can erase a flash memory partially by using sector erase function only in user program mode. The only unit
of flash memory to be erased in the user program mode is a sector.
The program memory of S3F80JB, 64Kbytes flash memory, is divided into 512 sectors. Every sector has all 128-
byte sizes. So the sector to be located destination address should be erased first to program a new data (one
byte) into flash memory. Minimum 10ms’ delay time for the erase is required after setting sector address and
triggering erase start bit (FMCON.0). Sector erase is not supported in tool program modes (MDS mode tool or
programming tool).

Sector 0-9

(128 byte x 10)

Sector 511

(128 byte)

Sector 510

(128 byte)

Sector 127

(128 byte)

Sector 11

(128 byte)

Sector 10

(128 byte)

04FFH

0000H

0500H

057FH

05FFH

FFFFH

FF7FH

FEFFH

3FFFH

3F7FH

Figure 15-7. Sector Configurations in User Program Mode

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