Reading bare NAND flash chips with a microcontroller

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NAND flash, the same memory chips found in everything from USB thumb drives to very expensive solid state disk drives, are increasingly common. As they (partially) serve as the storage for cellphones, Wiis, routers and just about every piece of consumer electronic devices, you're probably surrounded by dozens of NAND chips at any one time. [Sprite_tm], hacker extraordinaire, put up a build a … [Read more...]

AVR: the facts about flash memory

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Here's a nice little discussion about reading and writing AVR flash memory that [Windel] put together. He's using an In System Programmer to read the flash memory from an ATmega328 using AVRdude, the programming software which we used in our AVR Programming Tutorials. He covers the particulars of the commands, how this might be useful, and finishes up with the gotcha's involved in reading back … [Read more...]