Adesto Touts ReRAM for Automotive

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Gary Hilson, EEtimes, TORONTO, Sept. 12, 2018 – With the automotive market presenting potential opportunities of ever-emerging memories such as ferroelectric RAM (FRAM), magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM), and resistive RAM (ReRAM), Adesto Technologies is working hard to make sure that the latter makes the grade.

It recently unveiled new research demonstrating the potential of ReRAM for high-reliability applications such as automotive. The research was led by Adesto Fellow Dr. John Jameson, who shared the results at the ESSCIRC-ESSDERC 48th European Solid-State Device Research Conference earlier this month, and indicates that ReRAM could become a widely used, low-cost, and simple embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) because it uses simple cell structures and materials that can be integrated into existing manufacturing flows with as little as one additional mask.

While Adesto was one of the first companies to bring commercial ReRAM devices to market with its trademarked CBRAM technology that consumes less power, requires fewer processing steps, and operates at lower voltages as compared to conventional embedded flash technologies, ReRAM still faces integration and reliability challenges, which the researchers tackle in their paper.

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