Ramtron International

Ramtron International Corporation Ramtron short, is an American fabless manufacturer of F- RAM devices. The seat is in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The manufacturing partners are (as of February 2012) Texas Instruments, Samsung, and Toshiba. Ramtron respectively its partners provide serial and parallel non-volatile memory devices, auxiliary modules for processors, non-volatile state storage and recording devices forth for events on F-RAM - based.

Ramtron is a publicly traded company ( Nasdaq: RMTR ).

History

Ramtron was founded in Colorado Springs in 1984. 1988, the first prototype of an F- RAM module on the International Solid - State Circuits Conference ( ISSCC ) was presented. Ramtron built in the following years a pilot line for F- RAM devices. In 1998, Rohm with the first own product line, the production of Ramtron. Ramtron was so fabless and focused on the development of F- RAM devices. This requires further development partner were obtained as eg the above mentioned partner companies.

Ramtron has (as of February 2012) sites in the U.S., Canada, UK, Thailand, China and Japan.

Products

Largest mainstay of Ramtron are memory blocks in F-RAM technology. There are such devices (as of February 2012) in a parallel technology to the size of 8 Mbit (512 Kbit x 16/1 Mbit × 8) and in serial technique to 1 Mbit ( 128kbit × 8). Next memory modules are specially designed for RFID systems offered in addition to memory devices with very low power consumption.

Companion chips, such as serial devices with memory and mixed-signal functions, real-time clocks or Processor Supervisor, round off the range of products to processors around. In addition there is a " state memory " called building blocks that can restore logical status after a power interruption.