SRAM Challenges and MRAM Achievements

Notes from sureCore and Imec by Bryon Moyer Today we bring two stories about memory. One is business-model oriented; the other is about technology. We’ll take those two in order. Competing with Free What do you do when a product that you sell suddenly becomes available for free elsewhere? Of course, we’ve seen this in a number of contexts (RIP Netscape), but in this case, we’re talking about SRAM. Good SRAM is critical to a good design (“good” being suitably vague), so it definitely has value. Problem is, foundries now have proprietary versions in their libraries that their customers can use without buying separate SRAM IP… Read article in EE Journal