Re: Help needed for microcontroller based project.

In article <ACWvf.83374$a15.10244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Roger Hamlett <rogerspamignored@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
>How often are you going to be writing this 'real time' , and pin number to
>the EEPROM?. If it is more than a few times an hour, look at FRAM instead.
>It is amazing how quickly the life of a typical EEPROM, can get used up,
>if data is changing quickly.

If there isn't much data, a battery backed static ram can be a good way to
go.

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