• DocumentCode
    3641924
  • Title

    Analysis of STT-RAM cell design with multiple MTJs per access

  • Author

    Henry Park;Richard Dorrance;Amr Amin;Fengbo Ren;Dejan Marković;C.K. Ken Yang

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    53
  • Lastpage
    58
  • Abstract
    Density of STT-RAMs is limited by the area cost and width of the access device in a cell since it needs to support the programming currents. This paper explores a cell structure that shares each cell´s access transistor with multiple MTJ memory elements. Feasibility and limitations of such a cell structure is explored for both reading and writing of the memory. The analytical and simulation results indicate that only small amount of sharing is possible and having MTJs that can handle a high read current without disturbing the cell is needed.
  • Keywords
    "Computer architecture","Microprocessors","Switches","Tunneling magnetoresistance","Transistors","Magnetic tunneling","Writing"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH), 2011 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0993-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NANOARCH.2011.5941483
  • Filename
    5941483