Hi guys Iam thinking about buying tiny6410 board but have some doubts about it. This board is available with two kinds of flash memory: SLC (256MB) or MLC (2GB). MLC as I heard is slower and less durable but 256MB could be not enough for some embedded OS? Is there in practice any difference between those memories? Price is almost the same. Regards
MLC needs larger ECC to ensure reliable data. Must be handled by the CPU itself. Read the CPU's datasheet if the S3C6410 provides an ECC you can trust.
All that I could find is that this CPU has 1/4/8-bit hardware ECC but it dosen't tell me much. Anyway if they put such memory that means that probably this CPU can handle it. My question is about practical comparison of these memories in terms of speed and reliability. And secondly is 256 MB enough for running embedded OS like android, winCE, linux plus some applications?