The 24LC65 driver requires the presence of the I2C driver (either the hardware or software (bit banged) driver).Multibyte reads and writes are faster than multiple single byte reads and writes. This is because of two factors:
- the 24LC65 has an internal cash which greatly speads up writing
- a read or write requires the address of the location within the 24LC65 to be sent. The address is sent for each single byte read or write and is only sent once for each multibyte read or write.