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In this paper, we present a unified FPGA based electrical test-bench for characterizing different emerging NonVolatile Memory (NVM) chips. In particular, we present detailed electrical characterization and benchmarking of multiple…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Supriya Chakraborty , Abhishek Gupta , Manan Suri

Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is the de-facto choice for main memory devices due to its cost-effectiveness. It offers a larger capacity and higher bandwidth compared to SRAM but is slower than the latter. With each passing generation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kaustav Goswami , Hemanta Kumar Mondal , Shirshendu Das , Dip Sankar Banerjee

With the staggering increase of edge compute applications like Internet-of-Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), the demand for fast, energy-efficient on-chip memory is growing. While the fast and mature static random-access memory…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Albi Mema , Simon Thomann , Narendra Singh Dhakad , Hussam Amrouch

Large persistent memories such as NVDIMM have been perceived as a disruptive memory technology, because they can maintain the state of a system even after a power failure and allow the system to recover quickly. However, overheads incurred…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jie Zhang , Miryeong Kwon , Donghyun Gouk , Sungjoon Koh , Nam Sung Kim , Mahmut Taylan Kandemir , Myoungsoo Jung

Main memory (DRAM) consumes as much as half of the total system power in a computer today, resulting in a growing need to develop new DRAM architectures and systems that consume less power. Researchers have long relied on DRAM power models…

While non-volatile memories (NVMs) provide several desirable characteristics like better density and comparable energy efficiency than DRAM, DRAM-like performance, and disk-like durability, the limited endurance NVMs manifest remains a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yi Zheng , Aasheesh Kolli , Shaizeen Aga

DRAM-based main memories have read operations that destroy the read data, and as a result, must buffer large amounts of data on each array access to keep chip costs low. Unfortunately, system-level trends such as increased memory contention…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Justin Meza , Jing Li , Onur Mutlu

Computing-in-Memory (CiM) architectures based on emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) devices have demonstrated great potential for deep neural network (DNN) acceleration thanks to their high energy efficiency. However, NVM devices suffer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zheyu Yan , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Persistent Memory (PMEM), also known as Non-Volatile Memory (NVM), can deliver higher density and lower cost per bit when compared with DRAM. Its main drawback is that it is typically slower than DRAM. On the other hand, DRAM has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Diego Moura , Vinicius Petrucci , Daniel Mosse

With the emergence of Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) and their shortcomings such as limited endurance and high power consumption in write requests, several studies have suggested hybrid memory architecture employing both Dynamic Random Access…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Reza Salkhordeh , Hossein Asadi

The development in electronic sector has brought a remarkable change in the life style of mankind. At the same time this technological advancement results adverse effect on environment due to the use of toxic and non degradable materials in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Farhana Yasmin Rahman , Debajyoti Bhattacharjee , Syed Arshad Hussain

NVMe Flash-based SSDs are widely deployed in data centers to cache working sets of large-scale web services. As data centers face increasing sustainability demands, such as reduced carbon emissions, efficient management of Flash…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Michael Allison , Arun George , Javier Gonzalez , Dan Helmick , Vikash Kumar , Roshan Nair , Vivek Shah

Non-volatile memory (NVM), also known as persistent memory, is an emerging paradigm for memory that preserves its contents even after power loss. NVM is widely expected to become ubiquitous, and hardware architectures are already providing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Eleni Bila , John Derrick , Simon Doherty , Brijesh Dongol , Gerhard Schellhorn , Heike Wehrheim

The rapid growth of deep neural network (DNN) workloads has significantly increased the demand for large-capacity on-chip SRAM in machine learning (ML) applications, with SRAM arrays now occupying a substantial fraction of the total die…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Subhradip Chakraborty , Ankur Singh , Xuming Chen , Gourav Datta , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

Scalable persistent memory (PM) has opened up new opportunities for building indexes that operate and persist data directly on the memory bus, potentially enabling instant recovery, low latency and high throughput. When real PM hardware…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Yuliang He , Duo Lu , Kaisong Huang , Tianzheng Wang

PCIe devices, such as SSDs and GPUs, are pivotal in modern data centers, and their value is set to grow amidst the emergence of AI and large models. However, these devices face onboard DRAM shortage issue due to internal space limitation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jiapin Wang , Xiangping Zhang , Chenlei Tang , Xiang Chen , Tao Lu

Over the past two decades, the storage capacity and access bandwidth of main memory have improved tremendously, by 128x and 20x, respectively. These improvements are mainly due to the continuous technology scaling of DRAM (dynamic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Kevin K. Chang

Persistent or Non Volatile Memory (PMEM or NVM) has recently become commercially available under several configurations with different purposes and goals. Despite the attention to the topic, we are not aware of a comprehensive empirical…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Dimitrios Koutsoukos , Raghav Bhartia , Ana Klimovic , Gustavo Alonso

The memory demand of virtual machines (VMs) is increasing, while DRAM has limited capacity and high power consumption. Non-volatile memory (NVM) is an alternative to DRAM, but it has high latency and low bandwidth. We observe that the VM…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Sai sha , Chuandong Li , Yingwei Luo , Xiaolin Wang , Zhenlin Wang

The byte-addressable Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) is a promising technology since it simultaneously provides DRAM-like performance, disk-like capacity, and persistency. The current NVM deployment is symmetric, where NVM devices are directly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Teng Ma , Mingxing Zhang , Kang Chen , Xuehai Qian , Yongwei Wu