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Dan_lay
- 29th March 2006, 23:57
I'm making a project in Pic Basic that will need some non-volatile memory so I can store settings.

The settings are a relatively small amount of information, numbers etc.

I need the settings to remain in the PIC regardless of power or no power and also be changable via my program.

Does anyone know a suitable PIC? 18 pin footprint, preferably with built in NVRAM?


Many Thanks,

Dan

Archilochus
- 30th March 2006, 01:30
Don't know about NVRAM - but many PICs have on-board EEPROM which is retained when power is off.
Limited erase / write cycles, so if you need to write the data very often the EEPROM may not work for you.

DynamoBen
- 30th March 2006, 02:17
Settings for a chip should be done in EEProm which is on board. If your logging data external NVRAM would be better.