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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2015
Applicant:

Crocus Technology Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Reuven Yehoshua, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Bertrand F. Cambou, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Yaron Oren-Pines, San Jose, CA (US);

Douglas Lee, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Crocus Technology Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/02 (2006.01); G01R 33/09 (2006.01); G11C 11/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/098 (2013.01); G11C 11/1659 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus includes groups of magnetic tunnel junctions, where the magnetic tunnel junctions in each group are arranged in rows, the magnetic tunnel junctions in each row are connected in series, and the rows are connected in parallel. The apparatus further includes a first conductive layer including conductive interconnects, a second conductive layer including straps, and a third conductive layer including field lines, each field line configured to generate a magnetic field for configuring an operating point of a corresponding subset of the magnetic tunnel junctions in each group based on a current flow through each field line. The magnetic tunnel junctions in each group are disposed between and connected to a corresponding one of the conductive interconnects and a corresponding one of the straps. The second conductive layer is disposed between the first conductive layer and the third conductive layer.


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