Ramtron FRAM Memory Achieves Automotive Qualification Standard; AEC Q100 Milestone Demonstrates FRAM's World-Class Reliability.COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. , Colo. -- Ramtron International Ramtron International is the main vendor of FRAM chips. creator of ESDRAM: Ramtron Ships World's Fastest Synchronous DRAM
(2) (Service Provider Interface) The programming interface for developing Windows drivers under WOSA. FRAM (1) (Ferroelectric RAM) See FeRAM. (2) (Ferromagnetic RAM) A non-volatile memory that records microscopic bits on a magnetic surface. See MRAM. FRAM - Ferroelectric Random Access Memory product is now qualified under the Automotive Electronic Council's Stress Test Qualification for Integrated Circuits (AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission Q100). Ramtron currently supplies FRAM products to the automotive industry for a variety of applications, including smart airbag, instrumentation and entertainment systems. Achieving AEC Q100 qualification is expected to allow FRAM products to gain wider acceptance in mainstream automotive system applications and reduce design-in cycles for certain automotive systems. Ramtron plans to continue qualifying selected FRAM products under the AEC Q100 standard. "Qualifying under AEC Q100 demonstrates that Ramtron is committed to meeting the demanding requirements of automotive customers," said Ramtron Vice President Mike Alwais. "Today's automotive systems are increasingly demanding, and no other nonvolatile memory solution can match the write speed and high endurance of FRAM products." FRAM's fast read/write and high-endurance features solve a wide variety of automotive system design challenges, such as distinctive resume-play functions in automotive entertainment gear. FRAM stores scene changes and unique user data upon power-down, enabling users to continue where they left off when the unit is powered back up. FRAM is also revolutionizing data collection in a new breed of smart airbag systems, allowing more data to be collected more frequently, thereby enhancing system intelligence and deployment effectiveness. About the FRAM memory and the FM25640 FRAM technology provides the first true nonvolatile RAM. The FM25640 is a 64Kb SPI interface FRAM memory product that operates as a RAM while providing nonvolatile data storage. Read and write access times are equal, with the technology providing over one-trillion read/write cycles. With the FM25640, there are a far greater number of write cycles without wear-out, compared with similar EEPROMs, and much faster writes. As a result, customers are able to collect and store data and configurations more often with lower total cost and system overhead. About AEC Q100 In 1994, the Automotive Electronics Council The Automotive Electronics Council is an organisation based in the USA that sets qualification standards for the supply of components in the automotive electronics industry. External links
About Ramtron Ramtron International Corporation (NASDAQ:RMTR) is the leading supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric semiconductors including serial and parallel ferroelectric random access memory (storage) Ferroelectric Random Access Memory - (FRAM) A type of non-volatile read/write random access semiconductor memory. FRAM combines the advantages of SRAM - writing is roughly as fast as reading, and EPROM - non-volatility and in-circuit programmability. (FRAM) devices and Processor Companion devices that integrate a variety of commonly needed discrete analog and mixed-signal functions for processor-based systems. Ramtron's patented FRAM technology allows devices to perform the functions of both RAM and nonvolatile memory in a single chip. Its unique benefits are revolutionizing memory-based designs in a variety of automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial control, medical, and metering applications. Additionally, Ramtron works with various leading-edge licensees and manufacturers to bring its technology to market. For more information, visit www.ramtron.com "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: Statements herein that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" involving risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions, shifts in supply and demand, market acceptance, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product development, commercialization and technological difficulties, and capacity and supply constraints. Please refer to Ramtron's Securities and Exchange Commission filings for a discussion of such risks. |
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