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Fast Cycle RAM (FCRAM™)

Fujitsu's Fast Cycle RAM (FCRAM™) is a revolutionary DRAM core architecture that creates memory products with SRAM-like performance at DRAM-like prices. FCRAM™'s new core concept improves performance by using a proprietary pipeline operation and hidden precharge to reduce the random access cycle time to less than half of today's fastest SDRAM, Rambus and DDR memory technologies. In addition, FCRAM™'s highly segmented memory core uses less than half the power of SDRAM within the same effective bus bandwidth.

Fujitsu is now sampling FCRAM™ with SRAM interface for mobile phone applications and with DDR interface for network applications. FCRAM™ can be developed to meet the requirements of several applications. All ASM series devices are based on the FCRAM™ architecture originally announced in June 1998 at the VLSI Symposium.