Emerging Memory Technologies: Design, Architecture, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Yuan Xie (auth.), Yuan Xie (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the design implications of emerging, non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies on future computer memory hierarchy architecture designs. Since NVM technologies combine the speed of SRAM, the density of DRAM, and the non-volatility of Flash memory, they are very attractive as the basis for future universal memories. This book provides a holistic perspective on the topic, covering modeling, design, architecture and applications. The practical information included in this book will enable designers to exploit emerging memory technologies to improve significantly the performance/power/reliability of future, mainstream integrated circuits.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
NVSim: A Circuit-Level Performance, Energy, and Area Model for Emerging Non-volatile Memory....Pages 15-50
A Hybrid Solid-State Storage Architecture for the Performance, Energy Consumption, and Lifetime Improvement....Pages 51-77
Energy Efficient Systems Using Resistive Memory Devices....Pages 79-115
Asymmetry in STT-RAM Cell Operations....Pages 117-144
An Energy-Efficient 3D Stacked STT-RAM Cache Architecture for CMPs....Pages 145-167
STT-RAM Cache Hierarchy Design and Exploration with Emerging Magnetic Devices....Pages 169-199
Resistive Memories in Associative Computing....Pages 201-229
Wear-Leveling Techniques for Nonvolatile Memories....Pages 231-259
A Circuit-Architecture Co-optimization Framework for Exploring Nonvolatile Memory Hierarchies....Pages 261-287
Ferroelectric Nonvolatile Processor Design, Optimization, and Application....Pages 289-322

✦ Subjects

Circuits and Systems; Processor Architectures; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation