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Memory Devices and Modules
News Release from: Ramtron International | Subject: FM25L512
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 October 2006
Serial FRAM boosts nonvolatile storage
density
Nonvolatile FRAM provides increased data collection and storage capacity in a tiny, 8-pin package, cutting costs and board space in a range of applications.
Ramtron International has launched the FM25L512, a 512Kbit, 3V nonvolatile FRAM device with a high-speed serial peripheral interface (SPI) The FM25L512 provides increased data collection and storage capacity in a tiny, 8-pin package, cutting costs and board space in a range of applications from multifunction printers to industrial motor controllers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The FM25L512 offers our 256Kbit serial FRAM customers double the memory in the same small footprint", says Mike Alwais, Ramtron VP of Marketing.
"System designers can increase data collection capacity without increasing board space in next-generation printer and motor control designs".
Ramtron's FM25L512 is a 512Kbit nonvolatile RAM with an industry-compatible SPI interface that leverages the high-speed write capability of FRAM technology.
A direct hardware replacement for equivalent EEPROMs, only better, the FM25L512 offers NoDelay reads, writes at bus speeds of up to 20MHz, 10-year data retention, virtually unlimited read/write endurance and low operating currents.
The device operates from 3.0 to 3.6V and is rated over the industrial temperature range of -40 to +85C.
The FM25L512 outperforms alternative nonvolatile memory solutions for applications that require frequent and rapid writes and/or low power operation.
These applications range from advanced data collection, in which the number of write cycles is critical, to demanding industrial controls, in which long write delays and limited endurance can cause data loss.
Unlike serial EEPROMs, the FM25L512 performs write operations at bus speed and exhibits much lower power consumption.
Samples of the FM25L512 are currently available in an 8-pin "green"/RoHS TDFN (thin dual flat no-lead) package that is footprint-compatible with the SOIC-8 package, with pricing starting at $7.61 in quantities of 10,000.
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