PREDICTIVE PRE-HEATING OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CELLS

摘要

A method (180) and apparatus (106) for using thermal preconditioning to write data to a non- volatile memory cell (120), such as a spin-torque transfer random access memory (STRAM) memory cell. In some embodiments, a logical state is written to an unconditioned non- volatile first memory cell associated with a first block address (184). Thermal preconditioning is concurrently applied to a non-volatile second memory cell (188) associated with a second block address selected in response to the first block address (186) selection such that the record block address is an address of a block which has a relatively high probability of being selected in a write operation subsequent to the write operation of the non-volatile first memory cell.