US 12,223,991 B2
Semiconductor storage apparatus
Taro Tatsuno, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa (JP)
Appl. No. 17/907,276
Filed by SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 7, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/014824
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/210475, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-072873 (JP), filed on Apr. 15, 2020; and application No. 2020-188271 (JP), filed on Nov. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0115833 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G11C 11/16 (2006.01); H10B 61/00 (2023.01)
CPC G11C 11/1675 (2013.01) [G11C 11/1659 (2013.01); H10B 61/00 (2023.02)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor storage apparatus, comprising:
a plurality of memory cells divided into a plurality of groups, wherein
each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells comprises:
a magnetization reversal memory device; and
a first switch device configured to control a current to flow to the magnetization reversal memory device;
a plurality of wiring lines for each group of the plurality of groups, wherein
each wiring line of the plurality of wiring lines is coupled to the first switch device of a corresponding memory cell of the plurality of memory cells;
a plurality of second switch devices for each wiring line of the plurality of wiring lines; and
a control circuit configured to:
perform a writing control, based on an asymmetric property of a writing error rate curve line with respect to a writing voltage of the magnetization reversal memory device, wherein
the writing control is performed with Wa and Wb,
the Wa and the Wb are different based on an ON period of the first switch device,
the Wa is a pulse width upon a write operation of a first state to the magnetization reversal memory device,
the Wb is a pulse width upon a write operation of a second state to the magnetization reversal memory device, and
the plurality of second switch devices is configured to control a supply, to the plurality of wiring lines, of a voltage to use upon the write operation of the second state to the magnetization reversal memory device.