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Total Endurance™ Software Model

Microchip’s revolutionary Total Endurance Software

Model provides electronic system designers with

unprecedented visibility into serial EEPROM-based

applications. This advanced software model (with a

very friendly user interface) eliminates time and

guesswork from serial EEPROM-based designs by

accurately predicting the device’s performance and

reliability within a user-defined application

environment. Design trade-off analysis, which formerly

consumed days or weeks, can now be performed in

minutes – with a level of accuracy that delivers a truly

robust design.

With Microchip’s Total Endurance Software Model,

users may input the following application parameters:

• Serial EEPROM device type

• Bytes to be written per cycle

• Cycling mode – byte or page

• Data pattern type – random or worst-case

• Temperature in °C

• Erase/Write cycles per day

• Application lifetime or target PPM level

The model will respond with FIT rate, PPM level,

application life and plot of the PPM level versus

number of cycles. The model is available in both

MS-DOS

and Windows

versions.

Features

• Automatic or manual recalculation

• Real-time update of data

• Full screen or windowed graphical view

• Hypertext on-screen help

• Key or slide bar entry of parameters

• On-screen editing of parameters

• Single click copy of plot to clipboard

• Numeric export to delimited text file

• On-disk Total Endurance tutorial

Ordering Information:

Free download: www.microchip.com