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Re: ATmega88PA EEPROM Memory Life

2012-12-12 by bayramdavies

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Benny Smith" <benny@...> wrote:
>
> ... if I wanted to save a byte frequently,
> I could use up the 100,000 cycles at one
> byte address and then switch to another
> byte address to store the next 100,000
> repetitions of my byte-save operation.

Sure.  And to keep track of how may times you've written and erased the EEPROM byte you're currently working with, you could keep the count in EEPROM.  Of course, you'd have to write and erase it frequently to keep up-to-date, but not every cycle, and you could move this count to a fresh byte by counting its erases in another byte, and so on.

Maybe you should tell us what you're trying to do and what your restrictions are rather than having us sanity check half-baked schemes.

Graham.

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