13 Jan
2004
13 Jan
'04
8:20 p.m.
Well, there is no end to it. In my previous job, hardware engineer decided to use 64bit bus for flash so we had 4 of them to make 64bit bus(MPC755). So, the 32 bit ones is not enough to compare all 4 anyway.
Another perfectly valid (but unusual) scheme is to map 4 devices each in byte mode. That 4 byte ID read would be different that the stored one if you wanted to compare them bus wide.
Because these flashes are 16bit wide and there are usually two of them
(one for high order 16bits and one for the low order 16 bits)
Actually, it is 0x00180018. So, the question is why duplicate the id in the high and low order 16 bits?