Abstract:
In a memory cell unit array, memory cell units each constituted of first wires, second wires, and a nonvolatile memory cell are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix form in a first direction and a second direction. Each of the memory cell units includes a control circuit below it. The control circuit is constituted of a first control circuit and a second control circuit. The second wires are connected to the second control circuit. Some of the first wires that constitute the memory cell unit are connected to the first control circuit that constitutes this memory cell unit. Others of the first wires are connected to the first control circuit that constitutes an adjacent memory cell unit adjacent thereto in the first direction.
Abstract:
In a magnetic bubble memory having a first system of aligned ion-implanted patterns and a second system of aligned ion-implanted patterns, a swap gate having a transfer conductor for transferring a magnetic bubble from the second system to the first system, and an erase conductor for erasing the bubble to be replaced on the first system.
Abstract:
A magnetic bubble store, using adjoining non-implanted motifs as bubble-propagating motifs, the store comprising 3n identical, electrically interconnected storage devices, n being a positive integer, which are produced on an identical circuit chip and each comprise minor loops for storing the bubbles, at least one major loop acting as an access loop for the minor loops, first electrical component enabling bubbles to be transferred from the minor loops to the major loop and vice versa, a second electrical component enabling bubbles to be produced on the major loop, and a third electrical component enabling the bubbles on the major loop to be detected, the third, identical component, each formed by an electric conductor for bubble extension and contraction and a magneto-resistive element, being disposed in directions making an angle of 120.degree. with one another.
Abstract:
A magnetic bubble store including at least two series of longitudinally oriented major shift registers and a rotating magnetic field for producing a displacement of the bubbles in the minor registers. The series of minor registers are respectively arranged on either side of a transverse boundary. The minor registers of each of the series are constituted by motifs defined by ion implantation in a magnetic garnet layer. On either side of the boundary, these motifs define complementary distributions of implanted areas and non-implanted area.
Abstract:
An improved layout for single level, block access, magnetic bubble domain chips is provided. In the improved layout, single level devices and conductors are provided. The improvement resides primarily in utilizing conductors which are arranged in a straight-line configuration with the magnetic bubble domain propagation paths arranged in a meandering configuration. This arrangment is contrary to existing techniques and permits enhanced operation of the magnetic bubble domain system.
Abstract:
There is shown and described a magnetic bubble domain device organization using certain propagation elements which have expanded size relative to the remainder of the propagation elements in order to improve device or system operation.
Abstract:
A magnetic bubble switch operates in a drive-to-transfer mode when a rotating magnetic field is applied. The switch has a magnetic element in the shape that defines the letter "Y" having two arms and a stem. The switch has at least one serration on the arm of the Y in the vicinity of the stem. The switch has a conductor which is positioned across the end of the stem of the Y. A magnetic element is positioned so as to form a gap with the stem of the Y.
Abstract:
A magnetic bubble storage system and a method for making it using only two masking steps, one of which is critical. In a preferred embodiment, the storage regions are comprised of ion implanted propagation elements which can be contiguous with one another. The functions of write, read, storage, transfer between storage elements in different shift registers, and annihilation are provided by the method in which the same mask is used to define ion implanted regions and for formation of conductor metallurgy. Permalloy bridges over ion implanted regions are used to provide transfer of information between one storage element and another. In a preferred embodiment, NiFe is used for sensing, annihilation, and transfer of information, while the storage registers are comprised of ion implanted regions defining contiguous propagation elements of generally circular geometry.
Abstract:
A high speed magnetic bubble memory is realized with two like-apertured metallic layers each adapted for substantially uniform overall current flow. The apertures locally modify the current flow to provide localized field gradients for moving bubbles in an adjacent bubble layer. The patterns of apertures in the two layers are offset with respect to one another and the layers are pulsed in sequence in a manner to move bubbles along propagation paths defined by the patterns of apertures.
Abstract:
A noncirculating register for bubble memory systems is comprised of a propagation track, or shift register, which allows the transmission of bubbles in a serial path, a plurality of bubble idlers formed in an array parallel and adjacent to the propagation track and coupled thereto and a single current conductor arranged in such a fashion that there is a loop formed in the vicinity of each idler location, said loop extending into the propagation track which contains the normal straight line path of the conductor. By properly current pulsing the conductor loop in proper relationship to the rotating in-plane magnetic field, bubbles may be transferred in, transferred out, replicated out or annihilated in the various idler locations with respect to the contents of the propagation track. Without a current pulse, the contents of the idler locations and the propagation track have no effect on one another.