How to tell if a microcontroller is reprogrammable or not?

[Rtg]

I am a newbie in the microcontroller field and have started a project designing a gas sensor using PIC16F917. Is it reprogrammable? And can it be simulated using Proteus? Can the code be burnt using MPLAB? It is surprisingly difficult to ascertain. I think the Proteus part is true.

 

[dorke]

Read the μC datasheet,you will find the answer there.
Do the same for the programmer and simulator.

 

[Rtg]

Here's the datasheet: http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/41250E.pdf

I could not find anything related to that.

 

[Colin Mitchell]

This is what you look for:

High-Endurance Flash/EEPROM cell:
- 100,000 write Flash endurance
- 1,000,000 write EEPROM endurance
- Flash/Data EEPROM retention: > 40 years


You can reprogram it 100,000 times.

You can load the EEPROM 1,000,000 times.

 

[dorke]

I couldn't find anything ,did you?
Can you read English?
First page says "Flash based",google it and translate it to Hindi if you have to !