• Serial Flash Memory Chips
• Micron

Serial Flash Memory Chips

Micron

Designing with discrete flash is 1/10th the cost, uses a much smaller form factor, and requires significantly less specialized hardware than using SD flash cards. This Instructable will show you how to add 1MB of discrete external flash memory to your microcontroller project with what I believe to be the least amount of effort possible. This is also a follow-on to my other two data-logging Instructables (an and a ) that explains how to download the data from the logger flash memory using age-old TTY command line applications found in Linux. Motivation Whenever I'm building an Atmel ATMega or Arduino project and I need to record data, I almost always reach for a single rather than an SD flash subsystem. Many reasons exist to choose a discrete flash chip over an SD subsystem, and vice versa, and you'll need to consider these tradeoffs for your design. The list below contains a few tradeoffs I think about when I need to decide if I want to use a single 8-pin DIP chip or a full-on SD solution: Hardware Complexity (Choose: Discrete) One way to add SD flash to an Arduino system is to use a shield, such as (three 'e's) I bought at my local Radio Shack for $15. Youtube megadeth countdown to extinction.