Hi Bert,

Before you change your option, do listen to me. Don't beleive in people who say or claim that they have looked into the micro to read back the flash. (Snajeev is "not" a Liar...... :) )

I had asked Atmel on the same issue, their reply still in my inbox is that " No one has yet demonstrated breaking in our locked Micro". Yes that was the reply, from Mr. David Lee, concerned Atmel person about a year ago, now perhaps Mr. Peus Yousuf.

Atmel's micros are not that an easy target for hacking. Look at Atmel and the Market share taken by its Flash micros. It speaks for itself that they are secure enough.

YES it is possible to break in a micro. But as you can make sysnthetic GOLD from isotopes and high tech metallurgy which will be 1000 times more expensive than natural gold, likwise breaking in a locked micro will cost you so enormous that you will really feel like programing the code by yourself rather than stealing from inside a micro.

So have confidence in Atmel security and launch your product happily. Yours is not the only or first product in the real world.

Give an offer on the net of a million Dollar to read back the code from a locked micro. I see how many would rush, none.

By the way what's your product............... Something to land a vehicle on Mars ???


Simon