Peter Todd wrote:
> 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...
>   
they do? I didn't notice that...I don't see this failure with serial 
EEPROMs.
> 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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