Radiation hardening design for spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory

Although the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is intrinsically immune to radiation, the read/write operations of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) may be vulnerable to radiation-induced current. In this paper, we investigate the radiation hardening design for spin orbit torque based MRAM (SOT-MRAM). The hardening technique is firstly studied at the device level by optimizing the dimension and magnetic parameters. Then we propose radiation hardening read and write circuits addressing the influence of single event upset (SEU). Based on a physics-based SOT-MTJ compact model and a 65nm CMOS design kit, simulation results show that the proposed MOS-stacked read sensing amplifier and write circuits of six PMOS transistors as a feed-back structure to charge/discharge sensitive nodes can correct soft errors.