Hello. I'm studying how to handle flash by the Atmel's examples and some found on this site. Atmel provides library implementing the basic functions: write page in flash, set/clear lock bits and so on. I observed that the buffer's size passed to routine writing page in flash is "FLASH_PAGE_SIZE_BYTE / 4", where FLASH_PAGE_SIZE_BYTE is page size of the flash. Why is it so? Is it because of 32-bit access to flash? Atmel datasheets recommend to write the whole pages at once.
I figured out why it is so, strange I could not get it earlier :) It's all about the way we access the flash, i.e. by 4-bytes (32 bit). In other words, we fill out the page NOT with bytes, but with 4-BYTES blocks, hence the division.
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