Mike Singer wrote:

> David VanHorn wrote:
>> I've done this in other devices, by specifying several fields for the data,
>> and a pointer to which field is in use.  The pointer only gets updated when
>> you change fields, so it never wears out in any practical sense.
> 
> There is exact number the pointer getting updated for 8-bit devices. It's 256.
> 256 * 100K =~ 25M, pretty much close to specified value (20M).
> Paying attention to numbers makes Engineer according to Olin ;-)

Are you suggesting to use one EEPROM byte to count until 256, then
increment a pointer and use the next EEPROM byte to count the next 256
events? How would you reach 20M (or 25M) counts with this scheme? 

> Wear out cells equally.

Why this?

Gerhard

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