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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2011
Yiran Chen, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Hai LI, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Harry Hongyue Liu, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Edina, MN (US);
Alan Xuguang Wang, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Xiaobin Wang, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Yiran Chen, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Hai Li, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Harry Hongyue Liu, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Edina, MN (US);
Alan Xuguang Wang, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Xiaobin Wang, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for using thermal preconditioning to write data to a non-volatile memory cell, such as a spin-torque transfer random access memory (STRAM) memory cell. In some embodiments, a logical state is written to an unconditioned non-volatile first memory cell associated with a first block address. Thermal preconditioning is concurrently applied to a non-volatile second memory cell associated with a second block address selected in response to the first block address.