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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2012
Applicant:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
John J. Wuu, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Donald R. Weiss, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 14/00 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 13/0004 (2013.01); G11C 13/0007 (2013.01); G11C 13/0033 (2013.01); G11C 13/0061 (2013.01); G11C 14/009 (2013.01); G11C 14/0081 (2013.01); G11C 2213/77 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, integrated circuit and apparatus are operative to control a plurality of passive variable resistance memory cells to store complimentary state information from at least one active memory circuit, such as a flop, latch, or any other suitable state generation circuit. The method, apparatus and integrated circuit may be operative to control the plurality of passive variable resistance memory cells to also restore the stored complimentary state information for the at least one active memory.