At 10:47 PM 5/29/97 -0624, you wrote:
>it would need to record one or two hundred bytes per second for several
>minutes, ideally quite a bit more. So something like 32K to 256K of memory
>would need to be written and then later read back. There is almost no
>requirement to randomly access this memory, just need to write it as data
>comes in and read it for upload to the PC.

RAMTRON http://www.ramtron.com makes what they call FERAMs.  These are pin
and software compatible with I2C EEPROMs, but the 10mS delay we are all
used to using is _!NOT!_ required.  Also, you can write the entire chip in
sequence after a single addressing command!

This sounds like it would be ideal for your application.  I am awaiting a
few samples.

Pricing is pretty good, too - very competitive to EEPROM for what you
advantages you get, imho.

Andy

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