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AT25010A/020A/040A

5087D–SEEPR–3/07

Functional

Description

The AT25010A/020A/040A is designed to interface directly with the synchronous serial

peripheral interface (SPI) of the 6805 and 68HC11 series of microcontrollers.

The AT25010A/020A/040A utilizes an 8-bit instruction register. The list of instructions

and their operation codes are contained in Table 5. All instructions, addresses, and data

are transferred with the MSB first and start with a high-to-low CS transition.

Note:

“A” represents MSB address bit A8.

WRITE ENABLE (WREN): The device will power up in the write disable state when V

CC

is applied. All programming instructions must therefore be preceded by a Write Enable

instruction. The WP pin must be held high during a WREN instruction.

WRITE DISABLE (WRDI): To protect the device against inadvertent writes, the Write

Disable instruction disables all programming modes. The WRDI instruction is indepen-

dent of the status of the WP pin.

READ STATUS REGISTER (RDSR): The Read Status Register instruction provides

access to the status register. The READY/BUSY and Write Enable status of the device

can be determined by the RDSR instruction. Similarly, the block write protection bits

indicate the extent of protection employed. These bits are set by using the WRSR

instruction.

WRITE STATUS REGISTER (WRSR): The WRSR instruction allows the user to select

one of four levels of protection. The AT25010A/020A/040A is divided into four array seg-

ments. One-quarter, one-half, or all of the memory segments can be protected. Any of

Table 5. Instruction Set for the AT25010A/020A/040A

Instruction Name

Instruction Format

Operation

WREN

0000 X110

Set Write Enable Latch

WRDI

0000 X100

Reset Write Enable Latch

RDSR

0000 X101

Read Status Register

WRSR

0000 X001

Write Status Register

READ

0000 A011

Read Data from Memory Array

WRITE

0000 A010

Write Data to Memory Array

Table 6. Status Register Format

Bit 7

Bit 6

Bit 5

Bit 4

Bit 3

Bit 2

Bit 1

Bit 0

X

X

X

X

BP1

BP0

WEN

RDY

Table 7. Read Status Register Bit Definition

Bit

Definition

Bit 0 (RDY)

Bit 0 = “0” (RDY) indicates the device is ready. Bit 0 = “1” indicates the write

cycle is in progress.

Bit 1 (WEN)

Bit 1= “0” indicates the device is not write-enabled. Bit 1 = “1” indicates the

device is write-enabled.

Bit 2 (BP0)

See Table 8 on page 8.

Bit 3 (BP1)

See Table 8 on page 8.

Bits 4

− 6 are “0”s when device is not in an internal write cycle.

Bits 0

− 7 are “1”s during an internal write cycle.