Intel C2550 FH8065401488912 Data Sheet

Intel

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 Atom™ Processor C2000 Product Family for Microserver

Datasheet, Vol. 2 of 3

September 2014

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Order Number: 330061-002US

The BIOS usage model requires that the Serial Flash device support multiple writes to a 

page (minimum of 512 writes) without requiring a preceding Erase command. The 

BIOS commonly uses capabilities such as counters that are used for error logging and 

system boot progress logging. These counters are typically implemented by using byte 

writes to increment the bits within a page that have been designated as the counter. 

The BIOS multiple page write usage model applies to sequential and non-sequential 

data writes.

This usage model requirement is based on any given bit only being written once from a 

1 to a 0 without requiring the preceding erase. An erase is required to change bits back 

to the 1 state.