Area and Energy Efficient Joint 2T SOT-MRAM-Based on Diffusion Region Sharing With Adjacent Cells

Abstract

In this brief, we present a novel low area joint 2T spin orbit torque magnetic random access memory (SOT-MRAM) cell architecture. The proposed joint 2T cell achieves up to 15 % of SOT-MRAM cell area reduction by sharing the diffusion regions of transistors between adjacent cells. In addition, the small bit-line capacitance of the proposed SOT-MRAM can lead to 27% read energy reduction in comparison to the conventional SOT-MRAM. When the proposed 1 MB SOT-MRAM is used as L2 cache of X86 processor, the gem5 simulation results show the average of 18% dynamic energy savings in various workloads of SPEC2006 benchmarks.