Characterizing and mitigating the impact of process variations on phase change based memory systems

W Zhang, T Li - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual IEEE/ACM …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) has been used in main memory design for
decades. However, DRAM consumes an increasing power budget and faces difficulties in …

Architecting phase change memory as a scalable dram alternative

BC Lee, E Ipek, O Mutlu, D Burger - Proceedings of the 36th annual …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Memory scaling is in jeopardy as charge storage and sensing mechanisms become less
reliable for prevalent memory technologies, such as DRAM. In contrast, phase change …

Energy-aware writes to non-volatile main memory

J Chen, RC Chiang, HH Huang… - ACM SIGOPS Operating …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Scalability challenges of DRAM technology call for advances in emerging memory
technologies, among which Phase Change Memory (PCM) has received considerable …

Phase change memory architecture and the quest for scalability

BC Lee, E Ipek, O Mutlu, D Burger - Communications of the ACM, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Memory scaling is in jeopardy as charge storage and sensing mechanisms become less
reliable for prevalent memory technologies, such as dynamic random access memory …

Improving performance and lifetime of DRAM-PCM hybrid main memory through a proactive page allocation strategy

HA Khouzani, C Yang, J Hu - The 20th Asia and South Pacific …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phase change memory (PCM), given its non-volatility and low static energy consumption, is
a promising candidate to be used as main memory. However, due to its limited endurance …

Enhancing lifetime and security of PCM-based main memory with start-gap wear leveling

MK Qureshi, J Karidis, M Franceschini… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Phase Change Memory (PCM) is an emerging memory technology that can increase main
memory capacity in a cost-effective and power-efficient manner. However, PCM cells can …

Pay-as-you-go: Low-overhead hard-error correction for phase change memories

MK Qureshi - Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/ACM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Phase Change Memory (PCM) suffers from the problem of limited write endurance. This
problem is exacerbated because of the high variability in lifetime across PCM cells, resulting …

SD-PCM: Constructing reliable super dense phase change memory under write disturbance

R Wang, L Jiang, Y Zhang, J Yang - ACM SIGARCH Computer …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Phase Change Memory (PCM) has better scalability and smaller cell size comparing to
DRAM. However, further scaling PCM cell in deep sub-micron regime results in significant …

Enabling and exploiting partition-level parallelism (PALP) in phase change memories

S Song, A Das, O Mutlu, N Kandasamy - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Phase-change memory (PCM) devices have multiple banks to serve memory requests in
parallel. Unfortunately, if two requests go to the same bank, they have to be served one after …

Preventing PCM banks from seizing too much power

A Hay, K Strauss, T Sherwood, GH Loh… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Widespread adoption of Phase Change Memory (PCM) requires solutions to several
problems recently addressed in the literature, including limited endurance, increased write …