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According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a method for controlling a magnetoresistive random access memory, MRAM, bit-cell comprising a first transistor (10), a second transistor (20), and a resistive memory element (30), comprising a magnetic tunnel junction, MTJ, pillar arranged between a top electrode (350) and bottom electrode having a first terminal (342) and a second terminal (344). According to a second aspect, there is provided a magnetoresistive random access memory, MRAM, bit cell.

The disclosed technology relates generally to magnetic random access memory, and more particularly to spin-orbit-torque (SOT) magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM). According to an aspect, a MRAM device comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, and a resistive memory element. The resistive memory element comprises a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) pillar arranged between a top electrode and bottom electrode having a first terminal and a second terminal. According to another aspect, a method of using the MRAM device is disclosed.

A system and a method for processing a plurality of images, each image of the plurality of images being acquired by a respective image acquisition module of a vehicle and each image acquisition module being oriented outwardly with respect to the vehicle, the method comprising: - elaborating (S04) a bird's eye view image of the surroundings of the vehicle using the pixel values of the pixels of at least one portion of each image of the plurality of images as pixel values of the bird's eye view image, - performing (S05), on the bird's eye view image, a detection of at least one lane marked on ...

A multimodal imaging system comprises a light source, an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, and an optical filter comprising a first filter element and a second filter element. The light source emits partially coherent polarized light, and the first filter element and second filter element are arranged as an array parallel to the image sensor. The first filter element is configured for attenuated transmission of a first light spectrum, which comprises polarized light emitted by the light source, and the second filter element is configured for transmission of a second light ...

A material layer stack, a non-volatile memory device comprising the stack, and arrays thereof are described. The material layer stack (11; 21; 31) comprises a first and a second magnetic tunnel junction (14, 15) and a first top electrode (13a) formed on a top face (17b) of the stack. A shoulder (18a) is formed on a lateral face of the stack and divides the stack into a lower portion and an upper portion, wherein a tunnel barrier (14b) of the first magnetic tunnel junction is comprised by the lower stack portion and a tunnel barrier (15b) of the second magnetic tunnel junction by the upper ...

The invention is related to a method for verifying a printed pattern comprising polygon-shaped features (1-7) as printed by a lithographic tool using a lithographic mask, wherein a number of sectors of features of the pattern are first defined, and wherein the surface area of these sectors is used for calculating one or more parameters that express the print quality of the features, said parameters being suitable for determining a process window. The surface area of the sectors is determined on a contour of the printed pattern, obtainable from an CD-SEM image of the printed pattern. According ...

A method for estimating one or more of the following quantities from an electromechanical machine and/or component, the method comprising the creation of a photorealistic numerical model of the electromechanical machine or parts of it, a measurements step for combining outputs of physical sensors of which at least one is an imaging device for visualizing the external surface of the physical electromechanical machine in at least one 2-dimensional image, an estimation step combining the photorealistic numerical model and measurement step to provide an estimate of desired electromechanical ...

A configurable hardware device comprises a configuration memory of a known total size, and a configurable fabric arranged for being configured according to information from the configuration memory and segmented in a static partition and at least one dynamic partition. A static partition is arranged for receiving a bit stream and a cryptographic nonce and comprises a read/write mechanism for interacting with the configuration memory. The received bit stream is stored in the configuration memory and used to configure an intended application in the dynamic partition. The static partition is ...

A method for calibrating a camera (30) mounted behind a transparent wall (40) so as to obtain a projection function of the camera outputting, for a point (Mi) of a scene (A), the 2D-location ((x i,y i ) calculated ) of its projection in an image (Ii) of the scene. The method comprises: S30) determining image-based 2D-locations ((x i,y i ) image ) of image points (m i_image ) in image(s) (Ii) of a scene acquired through the transparent wall, the image points (mi image ) corresponding to points (Mi) of the scene; and, S50) the projection function being a function of refraction parameter(s), ...

The present invention relates to a magnetic device, which may be a magnetic memory and/or logic device. The magnetic device comprises a seed layer; a first free magnetic layer provided on the seed layer; an interlayer provided on the first free magnetic layer; a second free magnetic layer provided on the interlayer; a tunnel barrier provided on the second free magnetic layer; and a fixed magnetic layer. The first free magnetic layer and the second free magnetic layer are ferromagnetically coupled across the interlayer through exchange interaction.