Try FRAM from http://www.ramtron.com Regards Pailoor Donald J. Bartley wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've been reading a few postings on your discussion group about serial > SRAM and serial memory. I ran into the same problem alittle while back > where I needed to access memory using very few in/out pins of the > controller. Serial EEPROM wouldn't do because I was writing hundreds of > pieces of data every few seconds and I knew the EEPROM would "die" > within a week or so. I did notice replies regarding the Ramtron FRAM > but I would run into the same situation. Granted it would last longer > than an EEPROM but it would "die" eventually and I didn't want that in > the back of my mind. Besides, the write cycles were to long, some up > into the millisecond range. I did try the Solutions Cubed "RAMPack" > which was mentioned in a few of the replies but again speed was the > issue. The module has the ability to do up to 19200 bps but they can't > guarantee that speed because of the inaccuracy of the ceramic resonator > they use for timing. The fastest they could guarantee was 9600 bps. I > needed faster speeds. So I developed my own module, it clocks up to 35 > Mbps with a write time of 70nS. I realize most controllers don't clock > that fast but I wanted a module that waited for the controller, not the > other way around. The module was designed so the least amount of > program code would be needed to access it, nothing fancy just get in and > get out. Its all built around speed. Check out its specifications at: > > http://members.home.net/djbcoffee/fastram.html > > Don -- Website : http://business.vsnl.com/chiptech Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Ravi Pailoor Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" Attachment converted: wonderland:vcard.vcf (TEXT/CSOm) (00009DE0)