P15 (MEN MIKRO)

The P15 is based on the PC-MIP ANSI mezzanine standard. It can be used as an I/O extension in any type of bus system, i.e. CPCI, PXI, VME or on any type of stand-alone SBC. Appropriate PC-MIP carrier cards in 3U, 6U and other formats are available from MEN or other manufacturers. The P15 can be used to store non-volatile data. The memory is implemented in FRAM technology (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory). FRAMs are proprietary high-performance semiconductors that retain information even when power is lost. For this technology no batteries are required - and maintenance problems are solved. Access times are the same as for standard static SRAM, so there is no delay at write access as for EEPROM or Flash. The number of write cycles is also nearly unlimited (10 billion read/writes).