Patent ID: 6970378

Claim:
A thin-film magnetic memory device for executing a page mode operation with a unit operation cycle including a row cycle for receiving input of a row address and a plurality of subsequent column cycles for receiving input of a column address in each of said column cycles, comprising: a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, and each having a magnetic memory portion having an electric resistance varying in accordance with a magnetization direction rewritable in response to application of a predetermined data write magnetic field produced by first and second data write currents; a plurality of first data write interconnections provided for memory cell rows, respectively, for passing said first data write current in a selected row; a plurality of second data write interconnections provided for memory cell columns, respectively, for passing said second data write current in a selected column; and a row select portion for controlling supply of said first data write current to said plurality of first data write interconnections, said row select portion temporarily stopping supply of the first data write current corresponding to said selected row in response to every ending of said column cycle.