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ISCA
1997
IEEE
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The Energy Efficiency of IRAM Architectures
Portable systems demand energy efficiency in order to maximize battery life. IRAM architectures, which combine DRAM and a processor on the same chip in a DRAM process, are more en...
Richard Fromm, Stylianos Perissakis, Neal Cardwell...
ARVLSI
1997
IEEE
151views VLSI» more  ARVLSI 1997»
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The Hierarchical Multi-Bank DRAM: A High-Performance Architecture for Memory Integrated with Processors
A microprocessor integrated with DRAM on the same die has the potential to improve system performance by reducing the memory latency and improving the memory bandwidth. However, a...
Tadaaki Yamauchi, Lance Hammond, Kunle Olukotun
ISHPC
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The New DRAM Interfaces: SDRAM, RDRAM and Variants
For the past two decades, developments in DRAM technology, the primary technology for the main memory of computers, have been directed towards increasing density. As a result 256 M...
Brian Davis, Bruce L. Jacob, Trevor N. Mudge
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Initial Experiences with Dreamy Memory and the RAMpage Memory Hierarchy
The RAMpage hierarchy moves main memory up a level to replace the lowest-level cache by an equivalent-sized SRAM main memory. This paper is a first look at the value of RAMpage to ...
Philip Machanick
ISCA
1999
IEEE
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A Performance Comparison of Contemporary DRAM Architectures
In response to the growing gap between memory access time and processor speed, DRAM manufacturers have created several new DRAM architectures. This paper presents a simulation-bas...
Vinodh Cuppu, Bruce L. Jacob, Brian Davis, Trevor ...
DFT
1999
IEEE
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Yield Enhancement Considerations for a Single-Chip Multiprocessor System with Embedded DRAM
A programmable single-chip multiprocessor system for video coding has been developed. The system is implemented in a high-performance 0.25 m logic/embedded DRAM process. It integr...
Markus Rudack, Dirk Niggemeyer
FPL
2009
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Using 3D integration technology to realize multi-context FPGAs
This paper advocates the use of 3D integration technology to stack a DRAM on top of an FPGA. The DRAM will store future FPGA contexts. A configuration is read from the DRAM into a...
Alessandro Cevrero, Panagiotis Athanasopoulos, Had...
ISCA
2010
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Rethinking DRAM design and organization for energy-constrained multi-cores
DRAM vendors have traditionally optimized the cost-perbit metric, often making design decisions that incur energy penalties. A prime example is the overfetch feature in DRAM, wher...
Aniruddha N. Udipi, Naveen Muralimanohar, Niladris...
ISCA
2010
IEEE
214views Hardware» more  ISCA 2010»
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Re-architecting DRAM memory systems with monolithically integrated silicon photonics
The performance of future manycore processors will only scale with the number of integrated cores if there is a corresponding increase in memory bandwidth. Projected scaling of el...
Scott Beamer, Chen Sun, Yong-Jin Kwon, Ajay Joshi,...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
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Design and Implementation of High-Performance Memory Systems for Future Packet Buffers
In this paper we address the design of a future high-speed router that supports line rates as high as OC-3072 (160 Gb/s), around one hundred ports and several service classes. Bui...
Jorge García-Vidal, Jesús Corbal, Ll...