Title
REMAP+: An Efficient Banking Architecture for Multiple Writes of Algorithmic Memory
Abstract
Supporting multiple write ports is one of the main challenges when designing algorithmic multiported memory (AMM). AMM supports concurrent accesses by cooperating multiple, low-complexity memory modules together with logical operations. When scaling the number of write ports, the nontable-based approaches quadratically increase the number of memory modules, whereas the table-based approaches tend to introduce complex lookup tables and access handling logics. In this article, we introduce REMAP+, an efficient banking architecture to support multiple writes. We optimize the pipeline of REMAP+ to achieve high access bandwidth and more efficient table access. We also exploit the structured architecture of REMAP+ and propose a systematic design flow to automate the scaling of write ports and optimization of banking. Comprehensive analysis is presented to reveal the insight into design features and concerns. Based on extensive experiments, we have shown that REMAP+ outperforms the existing write schemes (XOR, live value table (LVT), and REMAP) with higher bandwidth (49%, 50%, 18%), lower energy (28%, 49%, 54%), and smaller area (43%, 37%, 35%).
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TVLSI.2019.2957455
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Algorithmic multiported memory (AMM),banking structure,memory architecture,multiple writes
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1063-8210
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bo-Cheng Charles Lai117719.25
Bo-Ya Chen200.68
Bo-En Chen300.34
Yi-Da Hsin400.34