29.2.1.1 Emulator Characteristics

This emulator is designed for best reliability, with a good balance of available storage and write-cycle limits. It is designed to ensure that page data is updated by an atomic operation, so that in the event of a failed update the previous data is not lost (when used correctly). With the exception of a system reset with data cached to the internal write-cache buffer, at most only the latest write to physical non-volatile memory will be lost in the event of a failed write.

This emulator scheme is tuned to give best write-cycle longevity when writes are confined to the same logical RWW EEPROM page (where possible) and when writes across multiple logical RWW EEPROM pages are made in a linear fashion through the entire emulated RWW EEPROM space.