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US20140029334A1 MAGNETIC FIELD SENSING USING MAGNETORESISTIVE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (MRAM) CELLS 有权
使用磁阻随机存取存储器(MRAM)电池进行磁场感测

MAGNETIC FIELD SENSING USING MAGNETORESISTIVE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (MRAM) CELLS
Abstract:
A magnetic field sensing system includes one or more magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) cells, and may be configured to determine one or more of a presence, a magnitude, and a polarity of an external magnetic field incident upon an MRAM cell. In some examples, a control module of the system controls a write current source, or another device, to provide a write current through a write line associated with the MRAM cell to induce a magnetic field proximate to the MRAM cell. The magnetic field may be less than a magnetic switching threshold of the MRAM cell. After initiating the provision of the write current through the write line, the control module may determine a magnetic state of the MRAM cell, and determine a presence of an external magnetic field incident upon the MRAM cell based at least in part on the magnetic state of the MRAM cell.
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