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06/16/05 09:05
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#95082 - FRAM Life
Responding to: ???'s previous message
I'd not noticed the 3v/5v life difference. I must have read an app note relating to 3v devices when I considered life was now effectively infinite. We have used FRAMs (on 5v) for 10 years now - previously a XICOR e-squared device.

We also read several locations EVERY 20ms (initially in ignorance of the life limit - RAMTRON don't exactly make a big issue of it). This is industrial control equipment, so is on permanently. That's a theoretical 10G reads in ~6 years. Not had a failure yet (although, one wonders if power down volatility might be a failure symptom, and ours, as I said, never switch off).

On reflection, 6 years is just about a nice product lifetime ;-)
I HAVE sorted the 20ms read 'problem' on our later kit, however.

Dave

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89s52            01/01/70 00:00      
   similar to SRAM            01/01/70 00:00      
   IAP            01/01/70 00:00      
      Problem with IAP and 89c669            01/01/70 00:00      
         think            01/01/70 00:00      
   non-volatile ram            01/01/70 00:00      
   eeprom or nvram            01/01/70 00:00      
      ramtron            01/01/70 00:00      
         FRAM            01/01/70 00:00      
            5V FRAM/3V FRAM            01/01/70 00:00      
   how much data and how fast            01/01/70 00:00      
      Another simple possibility....            01/01/70 00:00      
         RAMTRON FRAMs + SPI, parallel            01/01/70 00:00      
   SRAM, NVRAM, FLASH, EEPROM            01/01/70 00:00      
      FRAM            01/01/70 00:00      
         FRAM Life            01/01/70 00:00      
            FRAM life II.            01/01/70 00:00      
               Ramtron, Fujitsu, and others            01/01/70 00:00      
                  others?            01/01/70 00:00      
               FRAM life            01/01/70 00:00      
                  cycles            01/01/70 00:00      
                  endurance - the 5/3V puzzle            01/01/70 00:00      

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