NVRAM recommendation

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Kevin Lee

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Need a NVRAM in my design to store some parameters.

Any recommendation ? As I memorized, Xicor should have
such kind chips,but can't find NVRAM on its web site.
Does anyone know the other NVRAM suppliers ?

Kevin, 2004/5/3
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Hi Kevin,

Kevin Lee wrote:
Need a NVRAM in my design to store some parameters.

Any recommendation ? As I memorized, Xicor should have
such kind chips,but can't find NVRAM on its web site.
Does anyone know the other NVRAM suppliers ?
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Pleeeeease be more specific.
How many bytes/kbytes you need?
What access speed do you need?
What interface (parallel/SPI/I2C)?

r
Wolf

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When I did a Google Search I must have had around 208,000 hits to narrow
down from.
Did you want a RTC built in as well? www.maxim-ic.com has them with RTC's
too.
I typically use NVRAMs from www.ti.com
One I used a while back is bq4010/bq4010Y but they have several to choose
from.
TI does send out samples too.
www.digikey.com sells them as well as several others.

"Kevin Lee" <kevinlee@view.com.tw> wrote in message
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Need a NVRAM in my design to store some parameters.

Any recommendation ? As I memorized, Xicor should have
such kind chips,but can't find NVRAM on its web site.
Does anyone know the other NVRAM suppliers ?

Kevin, 2004/5/3
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Earl Bollinger wrote:

When I did a Google Search I must have had around 208,000 hits to
narrow down from.
Did you want a RTC built in as well? www.maxim-ic.com has them with
RTC's too.
I typically use NVRAMs from www.ti.com
One I used a while back is bq4010/bq4010Y but they have several to
choose from.
TI does send out samples too.
www.digikey.com sells them as well as several others.

"Kevin Lee" <kevinlee@view.com.tw> wrote in message
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Need a NVRAM in my design to store some parameters.

Any recommendation ? As I memorized, Xicor should have
such kind chips,but can't find NVRAM on its web site.
Does anyone know the other NVRAM suppliers ?

Kevin, 2004/5/3
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there used to be MOSTEK, I think its STI now.
Maxim of course and Benchmarq (now TI)
 
"Kevin Lee" <kevinlee@view.com.tw> schreef in bericht
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Need a NVRAM in my design to store some parameters.

Any recommendation ? As I memorized, Xicor should have
such kind chips,but can't find NVRAM on its web site.
Does anyone know the other NVRAM suppliers ?
Click to expand...
Parallel:
http://www.ramtron.com/doc/Products/parallel.asp

Serial:
http://www.ramtron.com/doc/Products/serial.asp


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Thanks, Frank.
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Be a bit careful - these are FRAM rather than SRAM + EEPROM devices.

This gives far superior write cycles compared to EEPROM, but also gives
finite read cycles (for 5V devices at least).

You can usually live with this but don't leave your parameters there for
continuous run-time accessing


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"Kevin Lee" <kevinlee@view.com.tw> schreef in bericht
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Need a NVRAM in my design to store some parameters.

Any recommendation ? As I memorized, Xicor should have
such kind chips,but can't find NVRAM on its web site.
Does anyone know the other NVRAM suppliers ?

Parallel:
http://www.ramtron.com/doc/Products/parallel.asp

Serial:
http://www.ramtron.com/doc/Products/serial.asp


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Thanks, Frank.
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Try www.ramtron.com

Phil W


"Kevin Lee" <kevinlee@view.com.tw> wrote in message
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Need a NVRAM in my design to store some parameters.

Any recommendation ? As I memorized, Xicor should have
such kind chips,but can't find NVRAM on its web site.
Does anyone know the other NVRAM suppliers ?

Kevin, 2004/5/3
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On Mon, 03 May 2004 12:07:29 +0200, Wolfgang Mahringer
<yeti201@gmx.at> wrote:
Any recommendation ? As I memorized, Xicor should have
such kind chips,but can't find NVRAM on its web site.
Does anyone know the other NVRAM suppliers ?
How many bytes/kbytes you need?
What access speed do you need?
What interface (parallel/SPI/I2C)?
Click to expand...
It just stores some bits when power suddenly shut down.
So the requirements are:
1. a couple bits is enough. 64, 128 or 256 bits is sufficient.
2. access time could be 1us or less. Seppd is not a issue.
3. either SPI or I2C is OK. uC is equipped with both I/F.
But SPI is preferred.

RTC is not required, because my system has one already.
(SII S35180A, consumes very low power.)
( http://speed.sii.co.jp/pub/compo/ic/en/param_chrt.jsp?recordID=13 )

I want SRAM+EEPROM type, not SRAM+coin cell battery.
Because small package is also required.

http://www.xicor.com/pdf_files/obsolete/x24c45.pdf

After I made a net search, X24C45 seems meet my requirements,
but its supply voltage is too high, 3.3V is default power in my
system. And I can't find it on Xicor's web site. This chip should
be discontinued.

Well, I might modify my design if no proper NVRAM is found.
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It just stores some bits when power suddenly shut down.
So the requirements are:
1. a couple bits is enough. 64, 128 or 256 bits is sufficient.
2. access time could be 1us or less. Seppd is not a issue.
3. either SPI or I2C is OK. uC is equipped with both I/F.
But SPI is preferred.
Click to expand...
Go to Digikey and type "serial EEPROM" into their search box.
It gets several thousand hits.

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