TY - GEN
T1 - 32-Mb 2T1R SPRAM with localized bi-directional write driver and '1'/'0' dual-array equalized reference cell
AU - Takemura, R.
AU - Kawahara, T.
AU - Miura, K.
AU - Yamamoto, H.
AU - Hayakawa, J.
AU - Matsuzaki, N.
AU - Ono, K.
AU - Yamanouchi, Michihiko
AU - Ito, K.
AU - Takahashi, H.
AU - Ikeda, S.
AU - Hasegawa, H.
AU - Matsuoka, H.
AU - Ohno, H.
PY - 2009/11/18
Y1 - 2009/11/18
N2 - A 32-Mb SPin-transfer torque RAM (SPRAM) chip was demonstrated with an access time of 32 ns and a cell write-time of 40 ns at a supply voltage of 1.8 V. The chip was fabricated with 150-nm CMOS and a 100 × 200 nm tunnel magnetoresistive device element. This chip features three ircuit technologies suitable for a large-scale array: 1) a two-transistor, one-resistor (2T1R) type memory cell for achieving a sufficiently large writing current despite the small cell size, 2) a compact read/write separated hierarchy bit/source-line structure with a localized bi-directional write driver for efficiently distributing writing current, and 3) a '1'/'0' dual-array equalized reference cell for stable read operation.
AB - A 32-Mb SPin-transfer torque RAM (SPRAM) chip was demonstrated with an access time of 32 ns and a cell write-time of 40 ns at a supply voltage of 1.8 V. The chip was fabricated with 150-nm CMOS and a 100 × 200 nm tunnel magnetoresistive device element. This chip features three ircuit technologies suitable for a large-scale array: 1) a two-transistor, one-resistor (2T1R) type memory cell for achieving a sufficiently large writing current despite the small cell size, 2) a compact read/write separated hierarchy bit/source-line structure with a localized bi-directional write driver for efficiently distributing writing current, and 3) a '1'/'0' dual-array equalized reference cell for stable read operation.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70449393678
SN - 9784863480018
T3 - IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers
SP - 84
EP - 85
BT - 2009 Symposium on VLSI Circuits
T2 - 2009 Symposium on VLSI Circuits
Y2 - 16 June 2009 through 18 June 2009
ER -