In the world of computers and electronics, there are a lot of terms that can be perplexing. One such term that often crops up is "ROM." But what is ROM, and how does it function within the framework ...

Flash memory has become one of the fastest growing semiconductor memories because of widespread adoption of this nonvolatile memory in portable electronics devices and consumer applications. Two major ...

In the early days of computing, the difference between RAM and ROM was very clear. Random access memory (RAM) was designed to hold data while the computer was turned on and to lose it when the power ...

The computers and other tech devices your company uses rely on a handful of basic technologies. One of them is the memory, which is where your software does what it does. There's a whole alphabet soup ...

Another term for flash memory. Since flash chips can be updated over and over, the ROM (read only) designation is somewhat misleading. "ROM" is used more to mean not volatile than not changeable. See ...

The term memory applies to any electronic component capable of temporarily storing data. This article will explain the different categories of memory, the technical characteristics of memory, and the ...

This paper presents fundamental information about NAND Flash memory used in Embedded Systems. It discusses various aspects of this storage media such as interface ...

Circa 1984 while in the employ of Toshiba, Dr. Fujio Masuoka invented a unique type of memory device having the desirable features of read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), and ...

STMicroelectronics has extended its ST7 family of 8-bit microcontrollers with devices offering medium and large memory capacities and high pin count packages. The ST7232x series is aimed at the ...