Apparatus, system, and method for sensing communication signals with magnetic field sensing elements

    公开(公告)号:US10401442B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-03

    申请号:US14801802

    申请日:2015-07-16

    Abstract: An apparatus includes a circuit including multiple magnetic tunnel junctions, the circuit configured to convert a quadrature modulated magnetic field to a quadrature modulated electrical signal, each magnetic tunnel junction including a storage layer having a storage magnetization and a sense layer having a sense magnetization, each magnetic tunnel junction being configured such that the sense magnetization and impedance of each magnetic tunnel junction vary in response to the quadrature modulated magnetic field. The apparatus further includes a module configured to demodulate the quadrature modulated electrical signal to recover a signal encoded in the quadrature modulated magnetic field.

    Serial magnetic logic unit architecture

    公开(公告)号:US09728233B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-08

    申请号:US14732561

    申请日:2015-06-05

    CPC classification number: G11C7/00 G06F3/061 G06F3/0659 G06F3/0673 G06F13/38

    Abstract: An apparatus has magnetic logic units a logic circuit configured to receive a serial input bit stream at an input node. Individual bits of data from the serial input bit stream are serially written into individual magnetic logic units without buffering the serial input bit stream between the input node and the individual magnetic logic units. Individual bits of data from individual magnetic logic units are serially read to produce a serial output bit stream on an output node without buffering the serial output bit stream between the individual magnetic logic units and the output node.

    Apparatus and method for sensing a magnetic field using arrays of magnetic sensing elements

    公开(公告)号:US09702944B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-11

    申请号:US14801792

    申请日:2015-07-16

    CPC classification number: G01R33/098 G11C11/1659 G11C11/1673 G11C11/1675

    Abstract: An apparatus includes circuits and a module configured to determine an external magnetic field based on a parameter of each circuit. Each circuit includes an array of magnetic tunnel junctions partitioned into subarrays. The magnetic tunnel junctions in each subarray are arranged in rows, the magnetic tunnel junctions in each row are connected in series, and the rows are connected in parallel. The subarrays are connected in series. Each magnetic tunnel junction includes a storage layer having a storage magnetization and a sense layer having a sense magnetization. Each magnetic tunnel junction is configured such that the sense magnetization and impedance of each magnetic tunnel junction vary in response to an external magnetic field. The parameter of each circuit varies based on a combined impedance of the multiple magnetic tunnel junctions. The module is implemented in at least one of a memory or a processing device.

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