Serial SRAM & NVSRAM
Microchip expanded its serial SRAM portfolio with four new devices that feature the industry’s largest densities and speeds. They are also the industry’s first with 5V operation, which remains prevalent in automotive and industrial applications. These 512 Kb and 1 Mb SPI devices maintain the portfolio’s low power consumption and small, 8-pin packages at the low starting cost of $1.16 each in 10,000-unit quantities. Speeds of up to 80 Mbps are achieved via the quad-SPI, or SQI™, protocol, providing the zero write-cycle times with near instantaneous data movement needed for offloading graphics, data buffering, data logging, displays, math, audio, video and other data-intensive functions.
Two additional family members—the 23LCV512 and 23LCV1024—offer the industry’s most cost-effective options for non-volatile, unlimited-endurance RAM, via battery backup. In fact, with their fast dual-SPI (SDI) throughput of 40 Mbps and low active and sleep currents, these serial NVSRAM devices feature high-speed operation without the high pin counts of parallel NVSRAM, and comparable power consumption to FRAM, all at a fraction of the price. This is beneficial for applications such as meters, black boxes and other data recorders, which require unlimited endurance or instantaneous writes along with non-volatile storage. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/sram
Serial SRAM & NVSRAM
Microchip expanded its serial SRAM portfolio with four new devices that feature the industry’s largest densities and speeds. They are also the industry’s first with 5V operation, which remains prevalent in automotive and industrial applications. These 512 Kb and 1 Mb SPI devices maintain the portfolio’s low power consumption and small, 8-pin packages at the low starting cost of $1.16 each in 10,000-unit quantities. Speeds of up to 80 Mbps are achieved via the quad-SPI, or SQI™, protocol, providing the zero write-cycle times with near instantaneous data movement needed for offloading graphics, data buffering, data logging, displays, math, audio, video and other data-intensive functions.
Two additional family members—the 23LCV512 and 23LCV1024—offer the industry’s most cost-effective options for non-volatile, unlimited-endurance RAM, via battery backup. In fact, with their fast dual-SPI (SDI) throughput of 40 Mbps and low active and sleep currents, these serial NVSRAM devices feature high-speed operation without the high pin counts of parallel NVSRAM, and comparable power consumption to FRAM, all at a fraction of the price. This is beneficial for applications such as meters, black boxes and other data recorders, which require unlimited endurance or instantaneous writes along with non-volatile storage. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/sram