FRAM is well established as a stand alone memory technology and has been a part of the memory industry for over a decade. Texas Instruments has also sold millions of embedded FRAM MCUs since its introduction in 2011. FRAM is also inherently radiation resistant with soft error rates that are below the detectable limits. Despite the term ‘ferro’ in the name FRAM does not contain any iron and is immune to magnetic fields. For more details check out TIs application report on FRAM Quality and Reliability available on www.ti.com/fram. The list of applications where FRAM not only provides differentiation but may also be the only viable option is as diverse as is vast. FRAM can lower system cost, increase system efficiency and reduce complexity while being significantly lower power than Flash. If the designers existing Flash-based MCU application has energy, write speed, endurance or power fail backup constraints it may be time to make the switch to FRAM.