On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:47:39PM -0700, Picdude wrote:
> Having been bitten by EEPROM failure on the PICs in the the past, I ended up using a serial EE and doing most of this, after discussion on and advice from this list.  I also flipped bits in the copies of each byte so in case the EE all fails to a certain state, it won't be identified as valid data.

Flipped bits? Clever, and smart, I wouldn't have thought of that one.

Do you think the stand-alone serial EEPROMs are less prone to failure? I
mean, the few ones I've seen datasheets for, say the same reliability
figures as PICs, but all the same...

Be really nice if some MFG made an EEPROM with wear-leveling tech built
into it for a cheap price... Of course, that's what flash memory is
really.

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