Large Capacity Magnetic Bubble Memories for Government Applications

Magnetic bubble memories are an all solid-state, nonvolatile technology that offers a viable alternative to rotating electromechanical memory systems. Rotating memory systems such as magnetic disks, tapes, or drums are often not practical in government applications because of maintenance, reliability, and security problems. Bubble memories offer improvements in the required system reliability for these applications and lend themselves to a modular memory design not possible with mechanical systems. A 244 Mbit memory system is described which is general purpose in design, has a block random access architecture, and has demonstrated its high reliability.