Jim, I got them started on that line. We made several thousand in-TV boards for a hospital TV control system. Writes are made to a particular part of EE once every several minutes, as I recall. After a few months, the boards with Atmel chips died. The Microchip ones are still singing along. Andy Jim Robertson on 10/05/2000 12:17:02 AM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: (bcc: Andrew Kunz/TDI_NOTES) Subject: Re: [PIC]:programmer At 12:53 PM 05/10/00 +1100, you wrote: >Andy Howard wrote: > >> Atmel do serial EEPROM up to 128k x 8, and their DataFlash in even bigger >> sizes, though whether you can get any this decade might be a different >> matter of course. > >From what I've heard about ATMEL EEPROMS low endurance, I may stick with >Microchip. 1,000,000 write cycles is low endurance? Some people are hard to please. ;-) -Jim > >-- >Best regards > >Tony > >ICmicro's >http://www.picnpoke.com >mailto:sales@picnpoke.com > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: >"[PIC]:" PIC only "[EE]:" engineering "[OT]:" off topic "[AD]:" ad's > > > Regards, Jim Robertson NEWFOUND ELECTRONICS Email: newfound@pipeline.com.au http://www.new-elect.com MPLAB compatible PIC programmers. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: "[PIC]:" PIC only "[EE]:" engineering "[OT]:" off topic "[AD]:" ad's -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics