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Memory geometry

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Multi-Ported GC-eDRAM Bitcell with Dynamic Port Configuration and Refresh Mechanism

Adam Shmuel Teman, Robert Giterman

Embedded memories occupy an increasingly dominant part of the area and power budgets of modern systems-on-chips (SoCs). Multi-ported embedded memories, commonly used by media SoCs and graphical processing units, occupy even more area and consume higher pow ...

MDPI2024

Chaosity: Understanding Contemporary NUMA-architectures

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Hamish Mcniece Hill Nicholson, Andreea Nica

Modern hardware is increasingly complex, requiring increasing effort to understand in order to carefully engineer systems for optimal performance and effective utilization. Moreover, established design principles and assumptions are not portable to modern ...

2023

Rebooting Virtual Memory with Midgard

Siddharth Gupta

Virtual Memory (VM) is a critical programming abstraction that is widely used in various modern computing platforms. With the rise of datacenter computing and birth of planet-scale online services, the semantic and capacity requirements from memory have ev ...

EPFL2023

Method for reading and writing unreliable memories and a corresponding memory controller device and memory

Andreas Peter Burg, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi

A method of accessing a memory space of a memory device with a decoder, the memory space having faults, including the steps of performing a memory access operation by an electronic device to a access a logical memory space of the memory device, and randomi ...

2022

VWR2A: A Very-Wide-Register Reconfigurable-Array Architecture for Low-Power Embedded Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Miguel Peon Quiros, Benoît Walter Denkinger

Edge-computing requires high-performance energy-efficient embedded systems. Fixed-function or custom accelerators, such as FFT or FIR filter engines, are very efficient at implementing a particular functionality for a given set of constraints. However, the ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Architecture Exploration and Optimization of Heterogeneous Many-Core Compute and Memory Architectures with Architectural Extensions

Yasir Mahmood Qureshi

The expeditious proliferation of Internet connectivity and the growing adoption of digital products have transformed various spheres of our everyday lives. This increased digitization of society has led to the emergence of new applications, which are deplo ...

EPFL2021

Memory chip or memory array for wide-voltage range in-memory computing using bitline technology

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, William Andrew Simon

A random access memory having a memory array having a plurality of local memory groups, each local memory group including a plurality of bitcells arranged in a bitcell column, a pair of local bitlines operatively connected to the plurality of bitcells, a p ...

2021

Miss-Optimized Memory Systems: Turning Thousands of Outstanding Misses into Reuse Opportunities

Mikhail Asiatici

Even if Dennard scaling came to an end fifteen years ago, Moore' s law kept fueling an exponential growth in compute performance through increased parallelization. However, the performance of memory and, in particular, Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), ...

EPFL2021

Real-Time Personalized Atrial Fibrillation Prediction on Multi-Core Wearable Sensors

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Miguel Peon Quiros, Adriana Arza Valdes, Elisabetta De Giovanni

In the recent Internet-of-Things (IoT) era where biomedical applications require continuous monitoring of relevant data, edge computing keeps gaining more and more importance. These new architectures for edge computing include multi-core and parallel compu ...

2021

The NEBULA RPC-Optimized Architecture

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Siddharth Gupta, Mark Johnathon Sutherland

Large-scale online services are commonly structured as a network of software tiers, which communicate over the datacenter network using RPCs. Ongoing trends towards software decomposition have led to the prevalence of tiers receiving and generating RPCs wi ...

2020

Replica Bit-Line Technique for Internal Refresh in Logic-Compatible Gain-Cell Embedded DRAM

Robert Giterman

Embedded memories, mostly implemented with static random access memory (SRAM), dominate the area and power of integrated circuits. Gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is an alternative to SRAM due to its high density, low power consumption, and two-ported f ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Data-Retention-Time Characterization of Gain-Cell eDRAMs across the Design and Variations Space

Andreas Peter Burg, Andrea Bonetti

The rise of data-intensive applications has increased the demand for high-density and low-power embedded memories. Among them, the gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is a suitable alternative to the static random access memory (SRAM) due to its high memory ...

IEEE2019

Low-Power Design of Digital VLSI Circuits around the Point of First Failure

Andrea Bonetti

As an increase of intelligent and self-powered devices is forecasted for our future everyday life, the implementation of energy-autonomous devices that can wirelessly communicate data from sensors is crucial. Even though techniques such as voltage scaling ...

EPFL2019

Efficient Workload Colocation in Modern Data Centers

Calin Iorgulescu

Despite the high costs of acquisition and maintenance of modern data centers, machine resource utilization is often low. Servers running online interactive services are over-provisioned to support peak load (which only occurs for a fraction of the time), d ...

EPFL2019

Distributed Logless Atomic Durability with Persistent Memory

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Siddharth Gupta

Datacenter operators have started deploying Persistent Memory (PM), leveraging its combination of fast access and persistence for significant performance gains. A key challenge for PM-aware software is to maintain high performance while achieving atomic du ...

2019

A Real-Time Multi-Camera Depth Estimation ASIC with Custom On-Chip Embedded DRAM

Jonathan Emmanuel D Narinx

The capability to process high-resolution videos in real-time is becoming more important in a wide variety of applications such as autonomous vehicles, virtual reality or intelligent surveillance systems. The high-accuracy and complex video processing algo ...

EPFL2019

Efficient Variance-Reduced Learning Over Multi-Agent Networks

Ali H. Sayed, Kun Yuan, Bicheng Ying

This work develops a fully decentralized variance-reduced learning algorithm for multi-agent networks where nodes store and process the data locally and are only allowed to communicate with their immediate neighbors. In the proposed algorithm, there is no ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

An Out-of-Order Load-Store Queue for Spatial Computing

Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Lana Josipovic

The efficiency of spatial computing depends on the ability to achieve maximal parallelism. This necessitates memory interfaces that can correctly handle memory accesses that arrive in arbitrary order while still respecting data dependencies and ensuring ap ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2017

Near-Memory Address Translation

Babak Falsafi, Javier Picorel Obando, Dorde Jevdic

Memory and logic integration on the same chip is becoming increasingly cost effective, creating the opportunity to offload data-intensive functionality to processing units placed inside memory chips. The introduction of memory-side processing units (MPUs) ...

Ieee2017

Fabrication, Characterization and Integration of Resistive Random Access Memories

Jury Sandrini

The functionalities and performances of today's computing systems are increasingly dependent on the memory block. This phenomenon, also referred as the Von Neumann bottleneck, is the main motivation for the research on memory technologies. Despite CMOS tec ...

EPFL2017