Now that the basics have been overviewed, here are three key areas where FRAM can easily be shown to make a quick impact: As much as 80% of wireless sensor networks are not built today for fear of the costs of maintenance and recalls. Battery replacements and bug fixes (which are very significant in safety and security applications) are often the first of these maintenance concerns. FRAM can solve these problems by enabling wireless updates at 250x less power than Flash MCUs and by utilizing a robust power management module that enables local energy harvesting for the wireless node. Some of the features of FRAM that support these capabilities are: fast writes, unified memory, no need for block erase, and guaranteed write completion. These all help support wireless updates to firmware that are low power, secure, and reliable all while using less redundant memory than a flash application. Additionally, the FRAM device is interruptible during a memory write operation in case a critical signal is triggered. A robust PMM and flexible clocking as well as fast writing for burst processing enable a wireless sensor node to run off of scavenged power. Data loggers today are very limited by the endurance of their memories. Designers look at the desired life span of the system and then divide by the endurance of the memory to figure out how much they can sample their signal. If this sample rate is too low to be of use for that application, then they have to go to a much more expensive and larger battery backed SRAM (BBSRAM) solution. FRAM solves these problems through its fast write times and high endurance of over 100 trillion write cycles. This means more signals can be taken over a longer time, allowing the designer to actually add multiple sensors to one logging system. Many customers want to add security as they add more wireless/wired data communication. They want to add ways for users to authenticate themselves easily with encryption codes or biometric identification. There are even more advanced security methods with complicated and isolated encryption that changes consistently. These applications must be small, have high endurance for over a dozen uses per day, and they must change quickly if needed. FRAM reduces the size of the solution by being entirely non-volatile, thereby eliminating the need for a separate EEPROM for storing logins or access codes. In addition, high endurance means such security operations can be done reliably for an infinite length of time. Finally, newer FRAM devices will have embedded security modules for enhanced encryption like 256-bit AES as well as IP protection configurations.