5 ms write cycle — what it means for system timing
The write cycle time for a word or page is 5 ms. That is the period the internal charge pump needs to program the memory cells. During that time the I²C bus is held (no new commands accepted). For a design that writes calibration data at power-up, a 5 ms pause is invisible. For a datalogger that writes every few hundred milliseconds, budget the write time into the polling loop.
