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- Patent Title: Magnetic device configured to perform an analog adder circuit function and method for operating such magnetic device
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Application No.: US15578841Application Date: 2016-05-31
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Publication No.: US10157652B2Publication Date: 2018-12-18
- Inventor: Quentin Stainer
- Applicant: CROCUS Technology SA
- Applicant Address: FR Grenoble
- Assignee: CROCUS TECHNOLOGY SA
- Current Assignee: CROCUS TECHNOLOGY SA
- Current Assignee Address: FR Grenoble
- Agency: Pearne & Gordon LLP
- Priority: EP15290151 20150605
- International Application: PCT/IB2016/053195 WO 20160531
- International Announcement: WO2016/193908 WO 20161208
- Main IPC: G11C11/00
- IPC: G11C11/00 ; G11C11/16 ; H03F15/00 ; G06G7/14 ; H01F10/32 ; H01L43/08

Abstract:
A magnetic device configured to perform an analog adder circuit function and including a plurality of magnetic units. Each magnetic unit includes n magnetic tunnel junctions electrically connected in series via a current line. Each magnetic tunnel junction includes a storage magnetic layer having a storage magnetization, a sense magnetic layer having a sense magnetization, and a tunnel barrier layer. Each magnetic unit also includes n input lines, each being configured to generate a magnetic field adapted for varying a direction of the sense magnetization and a resistance of the n magnetic tunnel junctions, based on an input. Each of the n magnetic units is configured to add said n inputs to generate an output signal that varies in response to the n resistances.
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