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Patent No.:

US 10658022 B1

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Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Thomas Martin Maffitt, Burlington, VT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/16 (2006.01); H01L 27/22 (2006.01); G11C 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/1673 (2013.01); G11C 7/08 (2013.01); G11C 11/1655 (2013.01); H01L 27/228 (2013.01);
Abstract

A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) system is described. The system includes a sense amplifier that performs a two-phase read, including a first phase in which a first n-channel transistor is coupled to a reference resistance and a second n-channel transistor is coupled to a data resistance, and a second phase in which the first n-channel transistor is coupled to the data resistance and the second n-channel transistor is coupled to the reference resistance. The circuit further includes a first active amplifier for controlling a gate voltage of the first n-channel transistor and a second active amplifier for controlling a gate voltage of the second n-channel transistor. The circuit further includes a comparator configured to output the data state of the cell based on input of a first voltage related to a reference resistance and a second voltage related to a data resistance.


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