It is without doubt one of the most vague, confusing bits of Microchip
documentation that I have seen in a while.

However, I think the general concensus is correct, that frequently writting
to the eeprom will put the other locations (that aren't written as
frequenctly) at risk, hence the advice to move these less frequently written
locations into program memory.

Regards

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Ammerman [SMTP:rammerman@ADELPHIA.NET]
> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 12:38 AM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [PIC]: EEPROM refresh - what is it?
>
> I could be wrong, but it seems rather clear to me:
>
> Any location that is not rewritten until other locations have been written
> 1,000,000 times may lose its data.
>
> Reads don't count at all.
>
> Bob Ammerman
> RAm Systems
>
>
> \\----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Warren" <aiw@CYPRESS.COM>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 4:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: EEPROM refresh - what is it?
>
>
> > Ken Pergola <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > But maybe I did not explain clearly enough what I thought was
> > > inconsistent. Let me try again:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Does this seem contradictory to you or am I looking at this the
> > > wrong way? Maybe I should take my own advice and contact Microchip
> > > about this. :)
> >
> >     Yeah, you're right; it DOES seem contradictory (or, at least,
> >     confused).  Take that advice of yours.
> >
> >     -Andy
> >
> >
> > === Andrew Warren -- aiw@cypress.com
> > === Principal Design Engineer
> > === Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
> > ===
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