UNI/O^® EEPROM Advantages:

UNI/O^® EEPROM Advanced Features:

The UNI/O^® Serial EEPROM has been designed keeping in mind the best features of our other EEPROM product families.

1. Status Register – Provides status and data protection features. The Status Register consists of the write enable latch (WEL), write in progress (WIP) and the block protect (BP) bits. The WEL allows writes to the array and Status Register only when this bit is set. The WIP indicates whether the device is currently being written to, enabling polling of the device. Based on the two block protect bits, the array can be either fully write-protected, half write-protected, quarter write-protected or not protected.

2. WIP Polling – The end of the write cycle can be determined by polling the WIP bit, enabling quicker writes.

3. Software Write Protect – Based on the block protect bits in the status register, the array can be either fully write-protected, half write-protected, quarter write-protected or have no write-protection.

4. Write Enable/Disable – Enables and disables write operations to the array and Status Register, allowing for more robust protection against false writes.

5. Software Addressable – The device can be software addressed, allowing for future devices to be connected together on the same bus.

6. Set All/Erase All – Set (0xFF) or Erase (0x00) entire memory with a single command.

7. Current Address Read – The address of the last memory location accessed is maintained while powered up, and this command allows the master to quickly read back starting from this location.

UNI/O^® EEPROMs Evaluation:

UNI/O^® Serial EEPROMs are easy to evaluate. The pin layouts for the standard 8 lead SOIC, PDIP, MSOP and TDFN packages match with those of the I²C and SPI EEPROMs as shown below.

Now you can evaluate our EEPROM using your existing hardware and any of our software drivers based on your choice of MCU.