Paul: Parallax has an example in there application notes. They are accessing a 1meg * 1 DRAM but you should be able to use their refresh routines for the 256K chip. Here is there BBS number ( 916-624-7101). File name dram.src. It is in Parallax assembly though. I have an application that I need storage on luckily my client has deep pockets and only one or two devices will be built. Or I would have to go with DRAM instead of SRAM! Joseph D. West Electronics Lab. Supervisor College of Mechanical Eng. Ohio State University (614) 292-2845 Fax (614) 292-3163