[PDF][PDF] Saving bit-flips through smart overwrites in NVRAM

ADR Kulandai, T Schwarz - Infocommunications Journal, 2022 - real.mtak.hu
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New generations of non-volatile random access memories will combine the best features of
memory (access times, byte addressability) with the best features of storage (nonvolatility,
low costs per byte). Some, like PCM, have a limited endurance. All will only consume energy
when accessed, but writes will use much more energy than reads. These characteristics put
a cost on flipping bits in memory. Bit-flip aware data structures lower the number of bits
flipped by not resetting fields to zero to indicate a deleted record but by using bit-maps. If …
Abstract
New generations of non-volatile random access memories will combine the best features of memory (access times, byte addressability) with the best features of storage (nonvolatility, low costs per byte). Some, like PCM, have a limited endurance. All will only consume energy when accessed, but writes will use much more energy than reads. These characteristics put a cost on flipping bits in memory. Bit-flip aware data structures lower the number of bits flipped by not resetting fields to zero to indicate a deleted record but by using bit-maps. If given a choice of where to over-write data, they will select the location which results in a lower number of bit-flips. We calculate the expected bit-flip savings of this strategy and derive a rule to determine the number of the possible candidate locations.
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