OSCAR: Orchestrating STT-RAM cache traffic for heterogeneous CPU-GPU architectures

J Zhan, O Kayıran, GH Loh, CR Das… - 2016 49th annual IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As we integrate data-parallel GPUs with general-purpose CPUs on a single chip, the
enormous cache traffic generated by GPUs will not only exhaust the limited cache capacity …

DimNoC: A dim silicon approach towards power-efficient on-chip network

J Zhan, J Ouyang, F Ge, J Zhao, Y ** and scheduling for network-on-chips with computation in STT-RAM based router
L Yang, W Liu, N Guan, N Dutt - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spin-Torque Transfer Magnetic RAM (STT-RAM), one of the emerging nonvolatile memory
(NVM) technologies explored as the replacement for SRAM memory architectures, is …

Domain-wall memory buffer for low-energy NoCs

D Kline Jr, H Xu, R Melhem, AK Jones - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Networks-on-chip (NoCs) have become a leading energy consumer in modern multi-core
processors, with a considerable portion of this energy originating from the large number of …

A compact low-power eDRAM-based NoC buffer

C Li, P Ampadu - 2015 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Whereas buffers significantly impact Network-on-Chip (NoC) performance, they also account
for up to 75% and nearly 50% of NoC router area and power respectively. Traditionally …

A congestion-aware hybrid SRAM and STT-RAM buffer design for network-on-chip router

J Lai, J Cai, J Chu - IEICE Electronics Express, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abstract Network-on-chip (NoC) offers a scalable and flexible communication infrastructure
for many-cores systems. Buffers in router is used for fine-grain flow control and Quality of …

Low‐power heterogeneous uncore architecture for future 3D chip‐multiprocessors

A Dorostkar, A Asad, M Fathy… - ETRI …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Uncore components such as on‐chip memory systems and on‐chip interconnects consume
a large amount of energy in emerging embedded applications. Few studies have focused on …

Mixed memory type hybrid cache

X Dong, J Suh - US Patent 9,304,913, 2016 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Unlike conventional random access memory (RAM) chip technologies, in
magnetic RAM (MRAM) data is not stored as electric charge, but is instead stored by …