Product category:
Memory Devices and Modules
News Release from: Ramtron International | Subject: FM3808
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 November 2004
FRAM saves board parameters during
blackouts
Italian company Seventech has selected the Ramtron FM3808 ferroelectric RAM for use in its innovative Merlino embedded system board.
Italian company Seventech has selected the Ramtron FM3808 ferroelectric RAM for use in its innovative Merlino embedded system board Seventech has chosen Ramtron's FM3808 for its fast read/write access times, integrated clock and ability to maintain data in memory even during power failures
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 1 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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This nonvolatility is crucial to the design of the Merlino board which has been architected to overcome prosaic booting problems, system resets due to freezing and the adaptation of traditional PC-style hardware to applications for which it was not really designed.
Based on a reprogrammable FPGA architecture with synthesised soft-core processor, the Merlino board uses the FRAM to store the parameters and the status of the application programs and preserves them during power loss so that they can be restarted from the exact point at which they were interrupted.
"The FRAM memories have similar characteristics to the SRAM ones, they have a low access time both in writing and reading, with the advantage of maintaining the data in memory even during power failures", said Salvo De Luca, CEO of Seventech.
He added: "By using this interesting feature of FRAM, the Merlino board elegantly resolves the problem of the startup of programs which are running on the board, after a power blackout".
"It will then be possible to restart the software from the exact point it was interrupted".
Mike Alwais, Ramtron Vice President of FRAM Products said: "Our design win with Seventech illustrates the growing trend of FRAM's unique ability to serve the growing complex embedded system market where nonvolatility of programs data/status and fast writing and reading time are vital".
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