A survey on techniques for improving Phase Change Memory (PCM) lifetime

M Mohseni, AH Novin - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2023 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT PCMs are Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) that store data using phase-change
semiconductors, such as silicon-chalcogenide glass. In addition to increased integration …

An energy-efficient dram cache architecture for mobile platforms with pcm-based main memory

D Shin, H Jang, K Oh, JW Lee - ACM Transactions on Embedded …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A long battery life is a first-class design objective for mobile devices, and main memory
accounts for a major portion of total energy consumption. Moreover, the energy consumption …

WL-WD: Wear-leveling solution to mitigate write disturbance errors for phase-change memory

M Kim, H Lee, H Kim, HJ Lee - IEEE access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phase-change memory (PCM) is a promising non-volatile memory device due to its
attractive properties such as fast access time and byte-addressability. However, PCM is still …

A-CACHE: Alternating cache allocation to conduct higher endurance in NVM-based caches

H Farbeh, AMH Monazzah, E Aliagha… - … on Circuits and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent developments in non-volatile memories (NVMs) have introduced them as an
alternative for SRAMs in on-chip caches. Besides the promising features of NVMs, eg, near …

ROBIN: Incremental oblique interleaved ECC for reliability improvement in STT-MRAM caches

E Cheshmikhani, H Farbeh, H Asadi - Proceedings of the 24th Asia and …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic RAM (STT-MRAM) is a promising alternative for SRAMs in
on-chip cache memories. Besides all its advantages, high error rate in STT-MRAM is a major …

An architectural-level reliability improvement scheme in STT-MRAM main memory

N Mahdavi, F Razaghian, H Farbeh - Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2022 - Elsevier
DRAM technologies in main memory of computer systems face fundamental scalability
challenges beyond 10 nm node. In recent years, Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic Random …

A low-overhead encoding scheme to extend the lifetime of nonvolatile memories

D Feng, J Xu, Y Hua, W Tong, J Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging nonvolatile memories (NVMs) are promising to replace DRAM as main memory.
However, NVMs suffer from limited write endurance and high write energy. Encoding …

TVTAC: Triple Voltage Threshold Approximate Cache For Energy Harvesting Nonvolatile Processors

M Hosseininia, A Salahvarzi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesting is considered to be a substitute for batteries in many modern systems.
Systems based on energy harvesting receive environmental energies from sources such as …

Cost-effective reliable MLC PCM architecture using virtual data based error correction

T Kwon, M Imran, JS Yang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The existing charge-based memories like DRAM and flash are reaching their scaling limits.
Phase change memory (PCM) is one of the most promising emerging memory technologies …

OPTIMAS: Overwrite purging through in-execution memory address snoo** to improve lifetime of NVM-based scratchpad memories

AMH Monazzah, H Farbeh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SRAM-based scratchpad memories (SPMs) used in embedded systems impose high
leakage power. Designing SPMs based on non-volatile memories (NVMs) were proposed …