Paper Title: Developing IoT-Based Factory Automation Using F-RAM

Paper Abstract: Factory automation is transitioning from legacy applications to more advanced Industry architectures, placing new demand for improvements at the field level. Sensors, actuators, and machines will be operating through machine-to-machine communications at the edge of the network to log data continuously. There will be hundreds of sensors around the system to monitor processes, system health, and flag time critical alerts when required. Past solutions, based on a low-speed legacy SPI interface, can’t meet the requirements of high performance systems and risk losing critical sensor data during data logging. The solution is more processing and data-logging memory capability at the remote nodes, requiring the high-endurance, high-data-retention, and instant-data-capture inherent in advanced F-RAM technology. The addition of 108MHz QSPI bandwidth supports high speed sensor data such as motor vibration sensors and coalesced data at collection points.

Paper Author: Doug Mitchell, Product Marketing Engineer MPS, Cypress Semiconductor

Author Bio: Doug Mitchell, Product Marketing Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor, focuses on technology development, product definition, and business plan development for memory technologies. He has over 35 years of experience leading technology, marketing and business development in the memory area. He was previously President/CEO at Simtek, where he led all aspects of nonvolatile semiconductor memory strategies and tactical execution. He was also VP Sales and Marketing at Everspin Technologies, where he led business development for the company’s MRAM products. Doug holds an MBA from National University and a BSEE from the University of Texas at Austin.