Memory Chips Reference Materials

Description: Performance of storage systems such as flash memory cards or SSDs refers to the amount of data that can be transferred in a given amount of time. ...

Description: Most form factors in today’s data storage landscape are defined by governing bodies that set different specifications to standardize them and enable interoperability. These governing bodies ...

Description: Not a day passes without major news of data breaches. Whether it’s database theft or taking control of systems, the interconnectivity the IoT bought with it, has made these threats even more ...

Description: This paper explains the basic concepts behind error correction and highlights a brief history of different error correction codes discussing and alaysing the advantages and disadvantages of the ...

Description: The European Union's NIS2 Directive prescribes access controls to protect critical infrastructures and essential services. Many companies, authorities and other organizations are affected by it and ...

Description: Everyone knows that time equals money, now more than ever. However, when we look at data storage, it's not only about time, but also about space. The layout of the PCBs is a crucial factor in the ...

Description: This application note shows how combining TLC and pSLC modes within a single e.MMC delivers both high storage density and superior write endurance, without resorting to higher-capacity, higher-cost ...

Description: Recently, Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron released their latest quarterly financial reports, showing significant revenue and profit growth due to the rising demand for AI technologies. High-value ...

Description: Optimizing car memory for autonomous driving refers to the process of efficiently managing and utilizing the memory resources within the onboard computer systems of autonomous vehicles. This ...

Description: Memory tokens are a versatile tool for securely transporting data, unlocking devices, enabling features, storing log data, and more ...

Description: Custom-branded Datakey serial memory keys provide a cashless vending option for KLIX coffee vending machines. ...

Description: Sterilizable Datakey memory tokens provide customized calibration solution for balloon catheter. ...

Description: A custom-branded Datakey EEPROM memory token is used to positively pair a wireless endoscopic video transmitter and display. ...

Description: Datakey serial memory tokens upload/clone setup parameters, deliver updated firmware and log usage data for vegetable sorters. ...

Description: Implementing an embedded system with a removable USB flash drive can be a difficult task. Knowing the key concepts and considerations beforehand can make the job much easier. ...

Description: While most embedded system components are sourced from OEM-focused manufacturers, portable memory devices are a gray area. The high-volume consumer electronics market - estimated at $200 billion ...

Description: A well-known principle of embedded products states that the more complex a device firmware is, the higher the probability that it will need to be replaced in the field. More code means more bugs. More ...

Description: From smart thermostats to Wi-Fi enabled dishwashers, smart, connected devices are all around us. These technologies present original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with a variety of challenges which ...

Description: If you have an embedded design project in your future, be sure to consider connector cycle life. How long it will take to reach the rated cycle life of the various connectors used, and what is the ...

Description: How can embedded system manufacturers make sure their users don't use unsupported or counterfeit SD cards? ...

Description: Removable memory can be used with IoT or cloud-connected devices to provide ID or location information ...

Description: Who doesn't love a good product torture test video? Watch what happens when a 120,000-pound tank runs over a USB flash drive, an SD card and a Datakey RUGGEDrive ...

Description: A recent BBC article explained how USB devices can be used for malicious purposes without the user opening an infected file on a USB flash drive. ...

Description: a simple physical-layer security feature can be sufficient to prevent access by those who lack the knowledge or motivation to circumvent it. ...

Description: Are there SD cards that are physically more robust than others, when they all use the same form factor? The video in this blog post shows destructive testing of SD cards. ...

Description: An over-the-air (OTA) update just bricked hundreds of remote devices. Now what? ...

Description: The 25XXX series serial EEPROMs from Microchip Technology support a half-duplex protocol that functions on a master-slave paradigm that is ideally suited to data stream applications. The bus is ...

Description: Many applications store nonvolatile information in the Flash program memory using table write and read operations. Applications that need to frequently update this data may have greater endurance ...

Description: This application note describes the methodology to use the Parallel Master Port (PMP) module to interface with external data memory; either external Flash or external RAM. This application note also ...

Description: The PIC18FXXXX family offers the largest range of on-chip enhanced FLASH program memory and the richest selection of peripherals in the current line of Microchip microcontrollers. The PIC18F8XXX ...

Description: Many times, choosing a FLASH memory device is driven by which manufacturer has the cheapest offering. Regardless of its use as a stand-alone device or as the program memory of a microcontroller, what ...

Description: Microchip Technology's TC1121 is a charge pump voltage converter specified to have a 100mA output current capability. The TC1121 has the benefits of selecting different internal charge pump switching ...

Description: A passive RFID tag contains an RFID integrated circuit (IC), resonant capacitor (C), and antenna (L), as shown in Figure 1. The antenna and capacitor form a parallel LC resonant circuit. The LC ...

Description: The Flash memory on all Silicon Labs MCU devices is readable and writable from application code. This capability allows user software to store values to the Flash such as calibration constants or ...

Description: The SPI family of FRAM products offers the market serial high speed, low power, nonvolatile FRAM memory. SPI FRAM memory devices take advantage of FRAM's fast write performance that provides writing ...

Description: This document supports the change in the data retention specification from 10 years to 45 years at 85 degrees C. The approved change is based on an activation energy of 1.5 eV and cumulative Quality ...

Description: Established semiconductor memory technologies are divided into two categories: 1. RAMs are Random Access Memories, which simply means that the access time for reads and writes are symmetric. 2. ...

Description: Ferroelectric random access memories (FRAMs) are nonvolatile memory devices that store data by using the bi-stable switchable polarization state of a ferroelectric material. Ferroelectric thin films ...