Electronic – EEPROM with high endurance

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I am currently working on one embedded project in which I have one counter which will be active all the time.
If the power goes down then also I have to store last counter status and load it back in next startup. So that I was planning to use EEPROM in which I will continuously write my counter value.
But I have read somewhere that EEPROM has read/write endurance at about 100,000 and I will be updating that counter probably 120,000 per 24 hours.
So I am finding alternatives to accomplish this task.
please give me your suggestion for doing the same.

Best Answer

Another solution could be to use a microcontroller with non-volatile FRAM. FRAM doesn't suffer from the same limitations on write cycles as EEPROM.

Some of the MSP430 products from TI are available with FRAM, here's a link to an application similar to what you describe:

MSP430 with FRAM save state on power failure

Here's the Wikipedia article on FRAM: FRAM

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