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So my boss comes into my office late last week and says: “we’re acquiring this company and you’re going to take care of the non-volatile memory business, ’cause its a bit like analog…” Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Virage Logic Corporation: http://www.design-reuse.com/news/24294/synopsys-virage-acquisition.html

What an embedded non-volatile memory allows you to do is to store on an SoC, encryption keys, unique chip identification numbers, chip or system configuration data and even trim bits for on-chip analog components. The cool thing about this technology is that you can program it multiple times (to change encryption keys or the bios on your system, for example) and there are no special technology processing steps required. It can all be done in a standard CMOS process.