Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic memory cell reading apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 磁记忆单元读取装置
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Application No.: US11721141Application Date: 2005-12-07
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Publication No.: US07808813B2Publication Date: 2010-10-05
- Inventor: Joichiro Ezaki , Yuji Kakinuma
- Applicant: Joichiro Ezaki , Yuji Kakinuma
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TDK Corporation
- Current Assignee: TDK Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2004-355507 20041208
- International Application: PCT/JP2005/022425 WO 20051207
- International Announcement: WO2006/062113 WO 20060615
- Main IPC: G11C11/00
- IPC: G11C11/00

Abstract:
There is provided a magnetic memory device capable of reading information even with a lower power supply voltage.The magnetic memory device is equipped with a plurality of storage cells laid out in two dimensions in (i+1) rows and (j+1) columns (where i, j are integers of one or higher). Two magnetoresistive effect revealing bodies 2a, 2b are disposed in each of the storage cells 1, and each storage cell includes: a first stage circuit 41 that supplies currents Ib1, Ib2 for detecting resistances of magnetoresistive effect revealing bodies 2a, 2b; an X-direction address decoder circuit 32 that supplies currents Iw1, Iw2 to the magnetoresistive effect revealing bodies 2a, 2b; and a current control circuit (constant current circuit 25n) that carries out control so that the total of the current Ib1 and the current Iw1 and the total of the current Iw2 and the current Ib2 are respectively constant.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090290405A1 MAGNETIC MEMORY CELL READING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-11-26
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