Name
Title | ||
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Circuit and microarchitecture evaluation of 3D stacking magnetic RAM (MRAM) as a universal memory replacement |
Abstract | ||
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Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) has been considered as a promising memory technology due to many attractive properties. Integrating MRAM with CMOS logic may incur extra manufacture cost, due to its hybrid magnetic-CMOS fabrication process. Stacking MRAM on top of CMOS logics using 3D integration is a way to minimize this cost overhead. In this paper, we discuss the circuit design issues for MRAM, and present the MRAM cache model. Based on the model, we compare MRAM against SRAM and DRAM in terms of area, performance, and energy. Finally we conduct architectural evaluation for 3D microprocessor stacking with MRAM. The experimental results show that MRAM stacking offers competitive IPC performance with a large reduction in power consumption compared to SRAM and DRAM counterparts. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1145/1391469.1391610 | DAC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
microcomputers,magnetic random access memory,stacking mram,power consumption,random-access storage,mram cache model,microarchitecture evaluation,3d stacking,offers competitive ipc performance,architectural evaluation,microprocessor stacking,extra manufacture cost,cost overhead,magnetic ram,cmos logic,dram,dram counterpart,cmos logic circuits,ipc performance,sram,magnetic storage,universal memory replacement,mram,3d stacking magnetic ram,integrating mram,stacking,cmos technology,semiconductor device modeling,microarchitecture,circuit design,magnetic circuits,magnetic properties | Dram,Read-write memory,Computer science,Circuit design,Magnetoresistive random-access memory,Universal memory,Static random-access memory,Electronic engineering,Magnetic storage,Embedded system,Microarchitecture | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
0738-100X | 978-1-60558-115-6 | 173 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
12.18 | 8 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xiangyu Dong | 1 | 1367 | 69.48 |
| Xiaoxia Wu | 2 | 535 | 38.61 |
| Guangyu Sun | 3 | 1920 | 111.55 |
| Yuan Xie | 4 | 6430 | 407.00 |
| Hai Li | 5 | 2435 | 208.37 |
| Yiran Chen | 6 | 3344 | 259.09 |