Architecture for a Memory Device

A method of reading information from a probe storage memory device including a media and a plurality of tips communicably connectable with the media and assigned to a plurality of groups of tips comprising:

• providing a signal to an electrical trace associated with a group of tips from the plurality of tips;
• urging the group of tips toward the media so that the group of tips is in communication with the media;
• communicating a signal to a portion of the media by providing a signal to an electrical trace associated with a tip from each of the plurality of groups of tips so that the signal is communicated to the tip of the group of tips in communication with the media;
• and
• determining a bit state of the portion of the media die.

A memory device for a probe storage system comprising:

• a memory device controller;
• a media die including a frame and a media platform movably coupled with the frame;
• a tip die connected with the frame such that the tip die is generally parallel to the media platform, the tip die including a plurality of tip groups, wherein a tip group includes a number of tips connected with the tip die by a cantilever;
• a set of electrical traces connected between the media platform and the memory device controller, a number of electrical traces of the set of electrical traces corresponding to the number of tips;
• wherein the set of electrical traces is selectably associable with one of the tip groups so that the tips of the associated tip group are in electrical communication with the media die.