no, i meant to describe the
different forms of PROM at
different stages of manufacturing.

and that for different boards,
we use a different series of
hardware devices to hold the code

(for "(Flash/OTP, ...)", i should
have said "(Flash or OTP, ...".)

for one board that has been around
a long time and that is manufactured
by an outside vendor, we use EEPROM
or RAM modules or UV-eraseable
EPROMs or OTPs, depending on the
stage of manufacture.

for another board, we use Flash
during development, and OTPs at final.

but we (h/w s/w developers at this
site) all tend to call the things
PROM, whether the board we are
working on happens to contain
the code in Flash or RAM or EPROM
or EEPROM or OTP. this especially
applies when looking at it from a S/W viewpoint, because the build will
be the same no matter which type of
device it resides on.

james
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original para:
"at different manufacturing stages it will be in different forms, Flash,
EPROM, OTP. (such as, Flash/OTP for one board, Flash/EPROM/OTP for another)"