Herbert Graf <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu> wrote:

> the EEPROM he is using has a write time of 20ms, very long if you
> are writing byte by byte (only 50bytes/sec) but pretty quick if you
> write 64 byte page by 64 byte page at a time (which is what I do).

    It's even faster if he can interleave writes to multiple EEPROMs
    in his circuit... Which is an argument for using many small
    EEPROMs rather than a single big one.

    With 8 EEPROMs, he can write 64 * 50 * 8 = 25,600 bytes per
    second.

    -Andy

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=== Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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