Thomas A. Coonan wrote:

> There's EEPROM.  Serial EEPROM is particularly handy.
> Your 10KB might best be done with this.  Check out
> XICOR, SGS Thompson, Atmel, also Dallas, there are
> others.  And, of course, Microchip. In fact, I remember
> several App notes on interfacing PICs to Microchip
> EEPROMs.  2-4 wire serial interface is pin-efficient for
> the PIC.  Good for data applications, where you don't
> require high speed, or program execution.  No battery -
> just a little chip (as small as 8-pin).

Your'e right, normal serial EEPROM's have a rather long write
cycle (approx 10ms).  However if you need faster writing
cycles, then you might want to consider FRAMs instead of serial
EEPROM's.  They are pin and software compatible with the normal
8 pin serial EEPROM's,  but with
the added advantage of ZERO WRITE CYCLE delay.    You can write
 data
to them as fast as your micro can handle it.

Just my small contribitution.  I once ran into writing speed
problems with normal EEPROM and FRAM's solved the problem.

Rgds
Werner





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