摘要:
A magnetoresistive element 10 having a memory cell 100 according to the present invention contains a first lower terminal n1 and a second lower terminal n2 respectively connected to both ends of a conductive layer 3 whose longitudinal direction is different from the column direction (X direction). Further, the gates of the first transistors M1 respectively included in two memory cells among the plurality of memory cells 100 and adjacent to each other in a row direction (Y direction) are commonly connected to a first word line 14. As a result, without increase of the cell area, it becomes possible to reserve a margin in the dimension of the cell structure or in the process for MRMA.
摘要:
A semiconductor device includes non-volatile registers, each including a holding circuit to hold data in a volatile manner and a non-volatile element. An address is allocated to each of the non-volatile registers. A non-volatile register control circuit performs control such that, in response to a write instruction, data held in the holding circuit is written to the non-volatile element in the non-volatile register having the address specified by the instruction and in response to a load instruction, data held in the non-volatile element is held in the holding circuit in the non-volatile register having the address specified by the instruction.
摘要:
A logic gate has a magnetoresistive element, a magnetization state control unit and an output unit. The magnetoresistive element has a laminated structure having N (N is an integer not smaller than 3) magnetic layers and N−1 nonmagnetic layers that are alternately laminated. A resistance value of the magnetoresistive element varies depending on magnetization states of the N magnetic layers. The magnetization state control unit sets the respective magnetization states of the N magnetic layers depending on N input data. The output unit outputs output data that varies depending on the resistance value of the magnetoresistive element.
摘要:
A magnetic memory cell 1 is provided with a magnetic recording layer 10 which is a ferromagnetic layer and a pinned layer 30 connected with the magnetic recording layer 10 through a non-magnetic layer 20. The magnetic recording layer 10 has a magnetization inversion region 13, a first magnetization fixed region 11 and a second magnetization fixed region 12. The magnetization inversion region 13 has a magnetization whose orientation is invertible and overlaps the pinned layer 30. The first magnetization fixed region 11 is connected with a first boundary B1 in the magnetization inversion region 13 and a magnetization orientation is fixed on a first direction. The second magnetization fixed region 12 is connected with a second boundary B2 in magnetization inversion region 13 and a magnetization orientation is fixed on a second direction. The first direction and the second direction are opposite to each other.
摘要:
A semiconductor storage device is provided with a memory array including a plurality of memory cells. The plurality of memory cells includes: first and third memory cells arranged along one of an even-numbered row and an odd-numbered row, and a second memory cell arranged along the other. Each of the plurality of memory cells includes: a first transistor comprising first and second diffusion layers; a second transistor comprising third and fourth diffusion layers; and a magnetoresistance element having one of terminals thereof connected to an interconnection layer which provides an electrical connection between the second and third diffusion layers. The fourth diffusion layer of the first memory cell is also used as the first diffusion layer of the second memory cell. In addition, the fourth diffusion layer of the second memory cell is also used as the first diffusion layer of the third memory cell.
摘要:
An MRAM is provided with a memory main body (2) having at least one cell array, and a magnetic field detecting section (4) which detects a magnetic field in the vicinity of the memory main body (2) and outputs the detection signal to the memory main body (2). In the cell array, a memory main body (2), which has a plurality of magnetic memory cells including a multilayer ferri-structure as a free layer, stops a prescribed operation of the memory main body (2), based on the detection signal.
摘要:
A toggle magnetic random access memory includes a first memory array, a second memory array and a controller. The first memory array includes a plurality of first memory cells including magnetoresistive elements. The second memory array includes a plurality of second memory cells including magnetoresistive elements and differs from the first memory array in write wirings used for writing. The controller controls the first memory array and the second memory array such that a first state in which a first burst write operation in the first memory array is executed and a second state in which a second burst write operation in the second memory array is executed are alternately executed in a continuous burst write mode. Accordingly, the continuous burst write operation can be executed at the high speed without any drop in the reliability and any increase in the circuit area.
摘要:
An operation method of a MRAM of the present invention stores in memory arrays, error correction codes, each of which comprises of symbols, each of which comprises bits, and to which an error correction is possible in units of symbols. In the operation method, the symbols are read by using the reference cells different from each other. Moreover, when a correctable error is detected in a read data of the error correction code from data cells corresponding to an input address, (A) a data in the data cell corresponding to an error bit is corrected, for a first error symbol as an error pattern of one bit, and (B) a data in the reference cell that is used to read a second error symbol is corrected for a second error symbol as en error pattern of the bits.
摘要:
An MRAM is provided with a memory main body (2) having at least one cell array, and a magnetic field detecting section (4) which detects a magnetic field in the vicinity of the memory main body (2) and outputs the detection signal to the memory main body (2). In the cell array, a memory main body (2), which has a plurality of magnetic memory cells including a multilayer ferri-structure as a free layer, stops a prescribed operation of the memory main body (2), based on the detection signal.
摘要:
A toggle magnetic random access memory includes a first memory array, a second memory array and a controller. The first memory array includes a plurality of first memory cells including magnetoresistive elements. The second memory array includes a plurality of second memory cells including magnetoresistive elements and differs from the first memory array in write wirings used for writing. The controller controls the first memory array and the second memory array such that a first state in which a first burst write operation in the first memory array is executed and a second state in which a second burst write operation in the second memory array is executed are alternately executed in a continuous burst write mode. Accordingly, the continuous burst write operation can be executed at the high speed without any drop in the reliability and any increase in the circuit area.