[sdiy] SRAM question

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Colin f wrote:

> The problem with flash or EPROM is the endurance of data. If you have 
> frequently changing data in memory that you want to be non-volatile 
> without having to initiate an explicit store operation before 
> power-down, then battery backed SRAM is the answer.

This can be mitigated somewhat by using an N times larger area of the 
eeprom as circular buffer and storing an incrementing counter to each 
update. This way the endurance is increased N times.

Antti

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