The light bulb. The car. The telephone. All of these inventions had profound impacts on the world and people’s lives. So, what’s next? Natural Human-Machine interfaces, autonomous cars, and artificial intelligence are bringing yet another wave of invention that is shifting the trajectory of society in stunning and positive ways. These systems require instant, ubiquitous access to Secure Data. Data is the “New Air,” wherever, whenever, always available. But to make data truly ubiquitous, inventors have to rethink the status quo. New technologies are needed to architect systems with no latency, high energy efficiency, high capacity, and uncompromised security. That’s where CrossBar Resistive RAM (ReRAM) comes in.
CrossBar was founded in 2010 to commercialize a radically different approach to non-volatile memory called ReRAM. A unique memory technology that can be integrated inside a system-on-chip or produced as a standalone memory chip, CrossBar ReRAM is playing an important role in enabling this new world.
ReRAM makes tightly integrated compute/storage subsystems possible, freeing designers from the traditional bus-based storage architectures.
With ReRAM, designers can create entirely new subsystems from “persistent computing” where integrated data pods never shut down to “smart memory” that learns from every interaction and autonomously retrieves, filters, and computes data without the intervention of the CPU.
CrossBar’s Resistive RAM technology has numerous uses for high-performance and high-density multiple-time programmable (MTP) memory as well as few-time programmable (FTP) and one-time programmable (OTP) non-volatile memories. In addition, the company is exploiting the benefits of its unique ReRAM technology for physically unclonable function (PUF) security keys, providing superior security characteristics, simpler implementations, higher speed processing, and semiconductor fabrication synergy with embedded ReRAM memories.
Leveraging the unique features of ReRAM technology where security is paramount, CrossBar is also developing the Cramium product family of Secure Processing Units (SPU). This product family serves a broad variety of applications with a high performance CPU core, large memory, and physical countermeasures to mitigate hacking. In addition, the Cramium product family contains hardware accelerators specifically targeting blockchain transactions.