[time-nuts] FE-5680A GPS discipline board on sale now

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Fri May 20 18:20:55 EDT 2016


Mark
By todays standards yes. But they were not that great 10 years ago.
So I may be crossing wires. I am speaking off the eeprom in the 5680 and I
think you are speaking to the one in the AVR. That would be of the modern
type.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I think the EEPROM in AVR chips is rated at 100,000 writes.   Several
> people have tested them and most found they would survive at least 5
> million writes... YMMV, of course.
> ------------------------
> One write every 24 hours is still under
> 10K writes in a reasonable lifespan for a GPSDO. It’s a rare eeprom that
> is rated that low.
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