Attaché: Towards ideal memory compression by mitigating metadata bandwidth overheads

S Hong, PJ Nair, B Abali… - 2018 51st Annual …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Memory systems are becoming bandwidth constrained and data compression is seen as a
simple technique to increase their effective bandwidth. However, data compressionrequires …

FASED: FPGA-accelerated simulation and evaluation of DRAM

D Biancolin, S Karandikar, D Kim, J Koenig… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recent work in FPGA-accelerated simulation of ASICs has shown that much of a simulator
can be automatically generated from ASIC RTL. Alas, these works rely on simple models of …

Touché: Towards ideal and efficient cache compression by mitigating tag area overheads

S Hong, B Abali, A Buyuktosunoglu, MB Healy… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Compression is seen as a simple technique to increase the effective cache capacity.
Unfortunately, compression techniques either incur tag area overheads or restrict cache …

More is less: Improving the energy efficiency of data movement via opportunistic use of sparse codes

Y Song, E Ipek - Proceedings of the 48th International Symposium on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Data movement over long and highly capacitive interconnects is responsible for a large
fraction of the energy consumed in nanometer ICs. DDRx, the most broadly adopted family …

Main memory latency simulation: the missing link

RS Verdejo, K Asifuzzaman, M Radulovic… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The community accepted the need for a detailed simulation of main memory. Currently, the
CPU simulators are usually coupled with the cycle-accurate main memory simulators …

Fast and accurate DRAM simulation: Can we further accelerate it?

J Feldmann, K Kraft, L Steiner… - … Design, Automation & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The simulation of Dynamic Random Access Memories (DRAMs) in a system context requires
highly accurate models due to the complex timing and power behavior of DRAMs. However …

An expert system for checking the correctness of memory systems using simulation and metamorphic testing

PC Canizares, A Núñez, J de Lara - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
During the last few years, computer performance has reached a turning point where
computing power is no longer the only important concern. This way, the emphasis is shifting …

LAMS: A latency-aware memory scheduling policy for modern DRAM systems

W Liu, P Huang, T Kun, T Lu, K Zhou… - 2016 IEEE 35th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new memory scheduling policy called LAMS, which is inspired by a
recently proposed memory architecture and targets for future high capacity memory systems …

Adam: Adaptive block placement with metadata embedding for hybrid caches

B Kim, PJ Nair, S Hong - 2020 IEEE 38th International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spin-Transfer Torque Random Access Memory (STT-RAM) is a potential alternative for
SRAM-based on-chip caches. STT-RAM offers high density and low leakage power, thereby …

Fast validation of DRAM protocols with timed petri nets

M Jung, K Kraft, T Soliman, C Sudarshan… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, an increasing number of different JEDEC memory standards, like DDR4/5,
LPDDR4/5, GDDR6, Wide I/O2, HBM2, and NVDIMM-P have been specified, which differ …