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Suppliers are shifting memory capacity toward AI infrastructure, and the parts embedded products depend on — DDR3, DDR4, SLC NAND, eMMC — are the ones going scarce and expensive. For most customers that is not a purchasing problem but a firmware problem: a different DRAM part needs new timings and calibration, a different flash part changes ECC and partition layout, and both mean a re-validated BSP and a new image. Those changes also fall under the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which requires documented software composition, secure updates and vulnerability handling across the support period. Mitkov Systems has been doing exactly this work on our own IoT platform, and we bring it to customer projects — so a forced memory change leaves you with a device that is still stable, still updatable, and still compliant.
Cyber Resilience Act: Reporting Obligations Start on 11 September 2026
The EU Cyber Resilience Act introduces reporting obligations from 11 September 2026, ahead of its main requirements applying in December 2027. Manufacturers of connected products should prepare their vulnerability handling and reporting processes now.
Mitkov Systems supports the technical foundations of secure embedded products: Embedded Linux/BSP maintenance, security patches, secure boot and reliable firmware updates.
Contact us to discuss your product’s security and maintenance needs.
The Memory Chip Crisis
Memory substitution feasibility assessment
We review your schematic, BOM and current firmware against candidate replacement parts and tell you what a swap actually costs. This covers package and footprint, pinout, supply voltage, density and organisation, speed and temperature grade, and the firmware changes each option would require. You get a written recommendation with the options ranked by effort and risk, including the ones we advise against.
DRAM replacement and controller re-tuning
Once a part is chosen, we update the memory controller configuration in the bootloader, run the vendor calibration and stress tools (NXP, TI, ST and similar), adjust the device tree, and confirm the system is stable at the new timings rather than merely booting.
Flash replacement and boot chain adaptation
For NOR, NAND and eMMC changes we handle driver and ID support, ECC configuration, partition layout, bootloader offsets, filesystem images and OTA logic, so that field update paths still work after the change.
BSP bring-up on revised hardware
If the replacement needs a board revision, we bring up the bootloader, kernel and drivers on the new hardware and get you back to a buildable, reproducible image.
Validation and qualification
Memory stress testing across temperature and voltage corners, power-fail testing, and endurance checks on flash, with a test report you can put in your technical file.
Second-source design
Rather than solving the same problem again in eighteen months, we can adapt the design and firmware so two or three qualified parts all work, with runtime detection where the hardware allows it.
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