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New protocol decoder: 24xx I²C EEPROM

It's been a while since the eeprom24xx protocol decoder was added to libsigrokdecode, but there hasn't been an "official" announce yet, so here goes.

The eeprom24xx PD can decode the I²C-based protocol of (almost) all 24xx series EEPROMs from various vendors.

Supported chips include for example the Microchip 24LC64 or 24AA025UID, the ST M24C01 or M24C02, the Siemens SLx24C01 or SLx24C02, and others. Various other chip families can be added relatively easily via chip spec entries in the decoder's lists.py file.

These ICs usually have only very few bytes of storage (e.g. 128 or 256 bytes), where the memory is organized into pages (the page size is e.g. 8 or 16 bytes). They usually support various types of accesses (command sequences) such as "byte write", "page write", "current address read", "random read", "sequential random read", "sequential current address read", and others.

Apart from a common command subset, some of the chips also support custom non-standard commands such as "set write protection" or "read write protection status" (on ICs that have write-protectable areas), and some others.