Bio-Hazard
03-29-2006, 06:37 AM
"Innovative Silicon (ISi) is a venture-funded start-up company, founded by chief scientist Serguei Okhonin and chairman and CTO Pierre Fazan, and dedicated to the development and licensing of Z-RAM memory technology.
Building on advances in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, Z-RAM exploits the so-called floating-body effect, where capacitance develops between the body of the transistor and the insulating layer. To that extent, Z-RAM exploits what would normally be regarded as an unwanted parasitic effect. The net result is the ability to store a binary one or zero, using no capacitor as such (Zero capacitor-RAM) and only one transistor, as opposed to the five or six transistors of an SRAM or DRAM cell."
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20060329PR201.html
Building on advances in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, Z-RAM exploits the so-called floating-body effect, where capacitance develops between the body of the transistor and the insulating layer. To that extent, Z-RAM exploits what would normally be regarded as an unwanted parasitic effect. The net result is the ability to store a binary one or zero, using no capacitor as such (Zero capacitor-RAM) and only one transistor, as opposed to the five or six transistors of an SRAM or DRAM cell."
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20060329PR201.html