What is the Flash mainly for? Is it absolutely needed in an application circuit?
If it is needed, my understanding is that the CC3100 loads some files from it upon start, right?
Does the CC3100 reads/writes to the flash during run time?
How to burn the files to the flash in one's own application circuit?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Yi Wang2 said:What is the Flash mainly for? Is it absolutely needed in an application circuit?
Yes it is absolutely required. It will contain the SimpleLink firmware, HTML files, certificates, images and can be used to store config or log files.
Yi Wang2 said:If it is needed, my understanding is that the CC3100 loads some files from it upon start, right?
Yes, it will load the firmware into memory.
Yi Wang2 said:Does the CC3100 reads/writes to the flash during run time?
It will read the HTML files, images, certificates etc. It will write to the serial flash if you wish to by using the FS API, which can be used to store config files, log files etc.
Yi Wang2 said:How to burn the files to the flash in one's own application circuit?
You use UniFlash tool to perform this task. To see how you can do that, check out this link, you can also search this forum as it has been discussed many times - 
