[Coco] Off Topic: FM16W08-SH DIP part?

[Andrew]

On 5/24/19 4:27 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

> Re: [Coco] Off Topic: FM16W08-SH DIP part?

I know you don't know the answer to this, Allen - but if it were for an 
Arduino project, why would you choose something like this that is fairly 
expensive and somewhat obscure, vs common and cheap flash memory?

The only answer I could think of would be you wanted something that 
could retain the data without needing a battery, and you needed the 
speed of the device as well (I think flash is slower?). Plus - you 
needed something small (low RAM) - and money wasn't an issue.

Did you have a project like that in mind? Something you needed a small 
but fast amount of non-volatile RAM that could keep its contents without 
power? Maybe for a buffer? Perhaps for a logic analyzer or some similar 
tool? 8K in a ring buffer for signal capture would be kinda nice. Maybe 
the non-volatility was a feature; you didn't need it, but it eliminated 
the need to design and build (or the extra pin(s) from the Arduino) a 
refresh circuit?

Just throwing some stuff out there trying to jog the nog!

If that doesn't work, make a note of it, put it wherever, and maybe 
it'll come to you when you least expect it. Heck, for all you know it 
was something that fell out of a box as a "bonus" (you know how you 
sometimes get an extra french fry with your order of onion rings? 
something like that!).

-- 
Andrew L. Ayers
Glendale, Arizona
https://github.com/andrew-ayers