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Non-volatile, high density, high speed, Micromagnet-Hall effect Random Access Memory (MHRAM).

Author
Katti, Romney R.
Published
Dec 1, 1991.
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1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Wu, Jiin C. and Stadler, Henry L.
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Summary
The micromagnetic Hall effect random access memory (MHRAM) has the potential of replacing ROMs, EPROMs, EEPROMs, and SRAMs because of its ability to achieve non-volatility, radiation hardness, high density, and fast access times, simultaneously. Information is stored magnetically in small magnetic elements (micromagnets), allowing unlimited data retention time, unlimited numbers of rewrite cycles, and inherent radiation hardness and SEU immunity, making the MHRAM suitable for ground based as well as spaceflight applications. The MHRAM device design is not affected by areal property fluctuations in the micromagnet, so high operating margins and high yield can be achieved in large scale integrated circuit (IC) fabrication. The MHRAM has short access times (less than 100 nsec). Write access time is short because on-chip transistors are used to gate current quickly, and magnetization reversal in the micromagnet can occur in a matter of a few nanoseconds. Read access time is short because the high electron mobility sensor (InAs or InSb) produces a large signal voltage in response to the fringing magnetic field from the micromagnet. High storage density is achieved since a unit cell consists only of two transistors and one micromagnet Hall effect element. By comparison, a DRAM unit cell has one transistor and one capacitor, and a SRAM unit cell has six transistors.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 19920013197.
Accession ID: 92N22440.
NASA, Washington, Technology 2001: The Second National Technology Transfer Conference and Exposition, Volume 1; p 139-146.
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