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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Theodore Zhu, Chandler, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365158 ;
Abstract
A new structure of a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) is presented for a high density and fast access operations. The MRAM includes two magnetic memory cells separated by an electrically conductive layer, each cell having two magnetic layers separated by a barrier layer forming a tunneling junction. Each memory cell contains one bit information as directions of magnetic vectors which are switched by an external magnetic field and sensed by a sense current flowing in the MRAM unit. The current creates a drop voltage over the MRAM unit, which indicates four different values according to the states stored in MRAM unit.