AgigA Tech (Cypress) Assigned Patent

AgigA Tech, Inc., subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., announced the issuance of US Patent No. 9,972,365 relating to reference voltage switching circuitry for dual-inline memory modules, or DIMMs.

This recently issued patent brings the firm’s portfolio total to 21 patents granted in USA and three in China.

Since the company’s inception more than ten years ago, the company has built up a portfolio of patents related to hybrid non-volatile RAM. As a result of this work on the emerging non-volatile DIMM, or NVDIMM, technology standard, the firm holds several patents to the base technology.

“As a key developer of NVDIMM technology, it is critical for AgigA to build up a strong IP and patent portfolio not only for ourselves, but for our customers and partners as well,” said Ron Sartore, president and CEO, AgigA Tech. “This latest patent, althugh more subtle in nature than our other key patents, is important to meet the high-performance design requirements of persistent memory modules, including NVDIMM-N.“

The NVDIMM-N standard defined by JEDEC offers a new class of non-volatile memory developed to meet the need for higher-performance persistent memory for enterprise storage and server applications, providing the low latency and nearly infinite endurance of DRAM, along with the non-volatility of flash. Enterprise and data center applications were previously constrained by the higher latency of existing storage solutions such as SSDs, but they are now able to remove a significant system bottleneck with the deployment of NVDIMM-N solutions in their storage hierarchy.