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Ramtron launches FRAM chip at DESIGN West event

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CALIFORNIA, USA: Ramtron International, a nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) vendor has introduced a low-energy FRAM chip at the DESIGN West event in San Jose, California.

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According to Ramtron, the FM25e64 expands Ramtron's capability to access speed and security in customers’ products and improve energy efficiency.

Ramtrom would also feature its FM72016 wireless memory and FM31T378 processor companion products at the DESIGN West conference. All of the products the company is demonstrating at DESIGN West benefit metering, point-of-sale and other data-intensive logging applications with their ability to lower energy consumption, increase data integrity and decrease product deployment and associated maintenance costs, reports Dylan McGrath of EETimes.

Ramtron claims that, the FM25e64 achieves level of power consumption, that are not possible with older non volatile memory technologies. The FM25e64 comes with a lot of advantages as it operates on 1.5- or 1.8-volt power rails, needs only about 20 microseconds to start up, write data and shut down memory and it also offers low 20 micro amps active current operation.

"Energy consumption cannot be measured in volts and amperes alone. The speed and frequency that a system accesses nonvolatile memory significantly impacts total energy consumption. In addition to offering native low power operation and low active current, the FM25e64 allows engineers to control the element time in the energy consumption equation with fast access speed and high frequency write capabilities to improve system performance with negligible energy consumption," said Scott Emley, Ramtron's vice president of worldwide marketing.

Ramtron also said that, mass production of the FM25e64 is expected later this year with a suggested 10,000 unit resale price of 95 cents per part.

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