"The same about 'endurance'. There's no guarantee, that your chip will become reprogrammed 100.000 times. May be that it cannot be reprogrammed, at all. Of course, that's very unprobable, but not impossible."


here is some text from 24c04

• Low power CMOS technology
• Hardware write protect
• Two wire serial interface bus, I 2 C™ compatible
• 5.0V only operation
• Self-timed write cycle (including auto-erase)
• Page-write buffer
• 1 ms write cycle time for single byte
• 1,000,000 Erase/Write cycles guaranteed
• Data retention >200 years
• 8-pin DIP/SOIC packages

• 1,000,000 Erase/Write cycles guaranteed


abhishek