Yeah, paying thirty cents for a capacitor to coddle a ten-cent MCU doesn't make a bunch of sense. Much cheaper to teach your software folks how to write transac

Yeah, paying thirty cents for a capacitor to coddle a ten-cent MCU doesn't make a bunch of sense. Much cheaper to teach your software folks how to write transactional updates to that flash. Typically you pay a small speed penalty to get update atomicity (in addition to having a more complicated implementation).