Patent ID: 11871678
Assignee: KANSAI UNIVERSITY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A method of operating a magnetic memory device, wherein the magnetic memory device comprises a first magnetic memory device and a second magnetic memory device connected to the first magnetic memory device,
each of the first and second magnetic memory devices comprises a first fixed layer, a first non-magnetic layer, a free layer, a second non-magnetic layer, and a second fixed layer, which are sequentially stacked, the first fixed layer having a magnetization direction maintained in a fixed direction, the free layer having a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and a variable magnetization direction, the second fixed layer having a magnetization direction maintained in an opposite direction of the first fixed layer, and
a resistance value of an MTJ device composed of the first fixed layer, the first non-magnetic layer, and the free layer is different from a resistance value of an MTJ device composed of the second fixed layer, the second non-magnetic layer, and the free layer,
wherein the method of operating the magnetic memory device comprises:
a first reading step supplying driving pulses to the first and second magnetic memory devices until the entirety of the free layer of the first magnetic memory device has the same magnetization direction, thereby transferring a data value, which is written in the free layer of the first magnetic memory device, to the free layer of the second magnetic memory device; and
a second reading step supplying driving pulses to the first and second magnetic memory devices until the entirety of the free layer of the second magnetic memory device has the same magnetization direction, thereby transferring a data value, which is written in the free layer of the second magnetic memory device, to the free layer of the first magnetic memory device.