MFA-MTJ Model: Magnetic-Field-Aware Compact Model of pMTJ for Robust STT-MRAM Design

Lizhou Wu; Siddharth Rao; Mottaqiallah Taouil; Erik Jan Marinissen; Gouri Sankar Kar; Said Hamdioui

doi:10.1109/TCAD.2021.3140157

MFA-MTJ Model: Magnetic-Field-Aware Compact Model of pMTJ for Robust STT-MRAM Design

Lizhou Wu, Siddharth Rao, Mottaqiallah Taouil, Erik Jan Marinissen, Gouri Sankar Kar, Said Hamdioui

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The popularity of perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ)-based spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memories (STT-MRAMs) is growing very fast. The performance of such memories is very sensitive to magnetic fields, including both internal and external ones. This article presents a magnetic-field-aware compact model of pMTJ, named the MFA-magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) model, for magnetic/electrical co-simulation of MTJ/CMOS circuits. Magnetic measurement data of MTJ devices, with diameters ranging from 35 to 175 nm, are used to calibrate an in-house magnetic coupling model. This model is subsequently integrated into our developed compact pMTJ model, which is implemented in Verilog-A. The superiority of the proposed MFA-MTJ model for device/circuit co-design of STT-MRAM is demonstrated by simulating a single pMTJ as well as STT-MRAM full circuits. The design space is explored under PVT variations and various configurations of magnetic fields.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4991-5004
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Volume	41
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2021.3140157
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Keywords

circuit simulation.
Integrated circuit modeling
Magnetic circuits
Magnetic devices
Magnetic tunneling
Magnetization
MTJ model
Resistance
STT-MRAM
Switches

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