Technical articles

Spin Injection MRAM Analysis

mram — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:08:09 -0600

Article date

March 2008

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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)

Freescale Pushing MRAM Technology Toward Automotive Goal

mram — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:58:24 -0600

Article date

February 2008

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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)

MRAM enters embedded arena

mram — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:49:09 -0500

Article date

July 2007

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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)

Is nonvolatile MRAM right for your consumer embedded device application?

mram — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:39:15 -0600

Article date

February 2007

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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.

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Next-gen memory market up for grabs

mram — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:34:45 -0600

Article date

February 2007

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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)

Magnetic Shielding for Stacked MRAM Packages

mram — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:58:17 -0600

Article date

December 2006

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Technical article about Magnetic shielding for Stacked MRAM using PoP (package on package) stacking technology.

Link to article (Reed electronics)

Nonvolatile MRAM is ready for prime time

mram — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:06:13 -0600

Article date

November 2006

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A technical article from Freescale, discussing their MRAM memory structure and possible applications.

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MRAM joins the memory market

mram — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:30:39 -0500

Article date

September 2006

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A technical look into Freescale's MRAM product. It is mostly engineers, but includes (at the end) a look to the future of MRAM, and its applications.

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IBM MRAM and Spintronics research journal

mram — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:22:38 -0600

Article date

February 2006

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11 technical articles about MRAM advances during the last decade [IBM]

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Hitting their stride: Nonvolatile-memory upstarts draw near to established leaders

mram — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0600

Article date

January 2005

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A good (And very technical) report about MRAM, FRAM, Flash and other memory technologies [EDN]

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