Writing for Semiconductor Engineering, Ernest Worthman describes the challenge of securing chips as a “foot race” between the good and bad guys. “Going forward, expect heavily funded, grouped efforts to place tremendous pressure on security envelopes,” Worthman explains.
Understanding the supply chain security conundrum
Northwest Logic Offers MRAM Controller IP compatible with Everspin’s ST-MRAM
Northwest Logic’s MRAM Controller Core is validated with Everspin’s EMD3D064M, expanding the ST-MRAM ecosystem to enable low latency and high reliability storage systems
Beaverton, OR – Feb 9, 2015 – Northwest Logic, a leading high-performance IP provider, and Everspin Technologies, Inc., the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of discrete and embedded Magnetic RAM “MRAM”, announces the full interoperability between Northwest Logic’s MRAM Controller Core and Everspin Technologies’ ST-MRAM devices. This interoperability is hardware proven on a Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA platform and is now available for designs needing low-latency, high memory throughput using MRAM technology.
Everspin’s ST-MRAM technology provides high performance, non-volatile RAM which is designed for storage and network markets. Everspin’s ST-MRAM combines the speed and endurance of DRAM with the non-volatility of Flash and is also interface compatible with DDR3 SDRAM. Everspin offers the world’s first commercially-available Spin Torque MRAM and a roadmap of ST-MRAM solutions that meets tomorrow’s storage system requirements. ST-MRAM from Everspin gives designers of high performance storage systems the ability to achieve ultra low latency, increase reliability with high cycling endurance, and protect data in the event of power loss.
“The combination of Everspin’s EMD3D064M DDR3 ST-MRAM and Northwest Logic’s MRAM Controller Core provides storage and memory system designers a new level of capability to have critical cache and in-flight data inherently protected,” said Scott Emley, Vice President of Marketing at Everspin. “We are very pleased that Northwest Logic, as a key Memory Controller IP provider, is now supporting ST-MRAM. This is a key enabler for our customers to use ST-MRAM in their designs.”
Northwest Logic, a key IP provider in the semiconductor market, provides a complete array of high performance Memory Interface Solutions for ASIC and FPGA applications. “We are glad to be working with Everspin to demonstrate a complete end-to-end MRAM system,” said Brian Daellenbach, President of Northwest Logic. “Our MRAM Controller Core supports Everspin’s ST- MRAM devices and is fully available for applications requiring high memory throughput, high clock rates and full programmability. The core also supports interfacing to DDR3 SDRAM.”
About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including PCI Express solution (PCI Express 3.0, 2.1 and 1.1 cores, DMA cores and DMA drivers), Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR4/3/2 SDRAM; HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/II), and MIPI Solution (CSI-2, DSI). These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For additional information, visit www.nwlogic.com.
About Everspin Technologies
Everspin Technologies is the worldwide leader in designing, manufacturing, and commercially shipping discrete and embedded Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) and Spin-Torque MRAM (ST-MRAM) into markets and applications where data persistence and integrity, low latency, and security are paramount. With over 40 Million MRAM and ST-MRAM products deployed in data center, cloud storage, energy, industrial, automotive, and transportation markets, Everspin has built the strongest and fastest growing foundation of MRAM users in the world. With an intellectual property portfolio of more than 500 active patents and applications, Everspin leads the market in development of both in-plane and perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) ST-MRAM bit cells. Everspin has established high-quality manufacturing worldwide, along with enabling a full turn-key 300mm high-volume foundry partner for advanced technology nodes including 40nm, 28nm and beyond. In addition to launching discrete memory solutions with new densities and advanced interfaces, including the world’s first commercialization and volume shipments of ST-MRAM, Everspin is delivering on the company’s strategy to proliferate MRAM and ST-MRAM as mainstream embedded memories for use in MCUs, GPUs, DSPs, Application Processors, and ASICs, earning Everspin its description as “The MRAM Company”. www.everspin.com
Northwest Logic Contact:
Vinitha Seevaratnam
Product Marketing Engineer
(503) 533-5800
www.nwlogic.com
Everspin Contact:
Michael Schoolnik
Story Public Relations
415-674-3816
[email protected]
Rambus ReRAM eyes mainstream adoption
Writing for Electronics 360 (IHS), Peter Clarke reports that Rambus has signed up customers for its metal-oxide based resistive RAM technology (ReRAM). “[For example, Rambus] signed an architectural license with Tezzaron Semiconductor Corp. (Naperville, Illinois), a supplier of 3D and 2.5D memory, memory subsystems and memory-intensive SOCs,” said Clarke.
Raspberry Pi 2 gets a memory boost
The Raspberry Pi 2 – which made its debut earlier this week – packs a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor and 1GB of RAM (LPDDR2 SDRAM). Additional key specs include four USB ports, 40 GPIO pins, HDMI output, an Ethernet jack, 3.5mm audio jack and microSD card slot.
Rambus Ecebs strengthens its position as smart ticketing leader
February 2015
Rambus Ecebs were delighted to welcome a large number of companies and people involved in smart ticketing in the UK to our event in the Strangers Dining Room in the Palace of Westminster which was sponsored by the Right Honourable Michael McCann, the Rambus Ecebs local MP.
Rambus Ecebs strengthens its position as smart ticketing leader at House of Commons event
Smart Ticketing – a Blueprint for 21st Century Travel
Rambus Ecebs were delighted to welcome a large number of companies and people involved in smart ticketing in the UK to our event in the Strangers’ Dining Room in the Palace of Westminster which was sponsored by the Right Honorable Michael McCann, the Rambus Ecebs local MP. This gathering of many of the most influential stakeholders in the smart ticketing community was held with transport representatives from central government, local authorities, transport operators, related commerical organisations and a number of prominent members of parliament and the House of Lords.
The event, which was exceptionally well attended and oversubscribed, discussed how smart ticketing is evolving and growing within the UK and beyond with focus on how important this is to the UK economy and welfare.
Lillian Greenwood, the Shadow Minister for Transport and MP for Nottingham South, spoke of the Labour party’s vision, a challenge to achieve the goal similar to that set out by
Harold Wilson and Barbera Castle in the late 1960’s – that is, to deliver a reliable, secure and integrated travel system. She further explained how the use of smart ticketing in the North of England was growing. This was providing significant benefit to local constituents not just via concessionary travel but commercial too, with the Trent Barton Tram system now accepting smartcards which can also be used on buses in Nottingham.
Rambus Ecebs executive chairman said: ” This event highlights the importance of smart ticketing within the UK and beyond. We are witnessing a new age where technology is moving at such a pace that consumers demand services that can align with their expectations for customer experience. We are seeing this with the advent of mobile payments and transport is no exception”.
He commented further, ” Rambus Ecebs are real leaders in smart ticketing implementation and have a very strong technical team who have long been leaders in smart technology and innovation. Rambus Ecebs have seen significant growth in demand for transport products and services.
The large attendance from key industry players at today’s event underlines that. I would like to thank Michael McCann and Lillian Greenwood for their support of this event in promoting the smart transport industry.”
To mark the event, Russell McCullagh, Rambus Ecebs Managing Director, presented some lucky attendees with a bottle of ‘Malt Whisky’, which of course can only be sampled when public transport is used afterwards.
Video: Overclocked HyperX DDR4 hits 4351MHz
The HyperX division of Kingston Technology has confirmed that its Predator DDR4 memory was recently overclocked at a screaming 4351MHz. The impressive overclock mark – set by “Toppc” of MSI – was achieved using a single 4GB HyperX Predator 3333MHz DDR4 module on MSI’s new X99S XPOWER AC motherboard.
