Technical articles

Spin Injection MRAM Analysis

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An interesting technical article by Motoyuki Oishi from TechOn Japan. The article explains Spin-Injection MRAM, its applications, what has been done so far and what needs to be done before it reaches mass market.

"Spin injection MRAMs have an excellent chance of winning a major market in the future because they combine the functional advantages of existing memories like DRAM and NAND Flash with performance superior to most"

Link to Article (TechOn)

03/05/2008

Freescale Pushing MRAM Technology Toward Automotive Goal

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An interesting article in Semiconductors International about Freescale's efforts to bring their MRAM chips to the automative industry. "Automotive customers are more challenging than the military, he said, with “zero defect” programs in place that demand incoming failure rates of <1 part per million (ppm). Freescale is working with most of the major automakers on testing MRAM reliability at the automotive-grade temperature range of 40-125°C."

Link to article (Semiconductors international)

03/02/2008

MRAM enters embedded arena

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A short article by Freescale, detailing how their MRAM products can be used for different embedded applications.

Link to article (EETimes Asia)

07/02/2007

Is nonvolatile MRAM right for your consumer embedded device application?

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A technical article by Tom Lee from Freescale. Describes Freescale's 4Mbit product, and compares it to other memory types. Also discusses future road maps and potential for MRAM.

Link to article

02/18/2007

Next-gen memory market up for grabs

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There are concerns that DRAM and flash will no longer scale in the near future. There are several 'next-gen' technologies - MRAM, FRAM and Phase Change. This technical article discusses the problems in Flash, and gives some info on the next-gen technologies (Mostly the phase change)