<div dir="ltr">Had a product with cal data and some user data in EEPROM.<div>I did the power-on-self-test / on-board-diagnostics code for the product.</div><div>Protected the EEPROM data with a cyclic redundancy check</div><div>(like a checksum but heavier math, resistant to errors</div><div>manifesting themselves as multiples of powers-of-2, </div><div>which could escape linear checksum)</div><div>Had a persistent problem with a small percentage of</div><div>EEPROM errors detected by the CRC during burn-in </div><div>which included power cycling.</div><div>Not sure we ever really got to the bottom of it...</div><div>maybe changed vendor of EEPROM ?</div><div>Hard to control what happens *during* power-on and -off transitions.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Memory is transitory. "Non volatile" memory such as eeprom actually slowly loses it's mind over time. So, assuming no glitches or other such errors, memories will eventually start forgetting things a bit at a time. This time can range from fairly short (like 10 years for a brand new part) to much longer times like 100 years for "quality" memory.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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