PIC18F6585 Datasheet, PDF (91/496 Pages) Microchip Technology – 64/68/80-Pin High-Performance, 64-Kbyte Enhanced Flash Microcontrollers with ECAN Module

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5.5 Writing to Flash Program Memory
The minimum programming block is 4 words or 8 bytes.
Word or byte programming is not supported.
Table writes are used internally to load the holding
registers needed to program the Flash memory. There
are eight holding registers used by the table writes for
programming.
Since the Table Latch (TABLAT) is only a single byte,
the TBLWT instruction has to be executed 8 times for
each programming operation. All of the table write
operations will essentially be short writes because only
the holding registers are written. At the end of updating
eight registers, the EECON1 register must be written
to, to start the programming operation with a long write.
The long write is necessary for programming the inter-
nal Flash. Instruction execution is halted while in a long
write cycle. The long write will be terminated by the
internal programming timer.
The EEPROM on-chip timer controls the write time.
The write/erase voltages are generated by an on-chip
charge pump, rated to operate over the voltage range
of the device for byte or word operations.
FIGURE 5-5:
TABLE WRITES TO FLASH PROGRAM MEMORY
TABLAT
Write Register
8
8
8
TBLPTR = xxxxx0
TBLPTR = xxxxx1
TBLPTR = xxxxx2
Holding Register
Holding Register
Holding Register
8
TBLPTR = xxxxx7
Holding Register
Program Memory
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