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US 10,373,680 B2Granted
Controlling current through correlated electron switch elements during programming operations
AssigneeArm Limited
InventorsMudit Bhargava, Glen Arnold Rosendale, Akshay Kumar, Piyush Agarwal, Shidhartha Das
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Abstract
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to correlated electron switch elements and, more particularly, to controlling current through correlated electron switch elements during programming operations.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- performing a write operation to place a correlated electron switch device in a lower impedance state comprising controlling a current through the correlated electron switch device, at least in part by limiting a voltage applied to an access device coupled to the correlated electron switch device to a specified threshold voltage level, at least in part to establish a threshold current density level in the correlated electron switch device for a subsequent write operation to place the correlated electron switch device in a higher impedance state.
An apparatus, comprising:
- one or more correlated electron switch devices;
- and
- one or more electronic switch devices to control a current through the one or more correlated electron switch devices during a write operation to place the one or more correlated electron switch devices in a lower impedance state to limit the current to a specified threshold current level at least in part to establish a threshold current density in the one or more correlated electron switch devices for a subsequent write operation to place the one or more correlated electron switch devices in a higher impedance state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.