One reason is that it uses much fewer precious I/O lines and
also fewer I/O= less board space too.
James

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> From: Ben Roothooft <Ben.Roothooft@ESAT.KULEUVEN.AC.BE>
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Why serial RAM ???
> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 1997 7:33 AM
>
> With all this talk lately about the serial RAM's...
>
> Why use a SERIAL ram in the first place ?
> They're much slower than the traditional parrallel
> memories and RAMTRON has parrallel FRAM's as
> well... so why bother ?
>
> Ben.
> (maybe a stoopid question... just curious)