Spin-transfer torque memories: Devices, circuits, and systems

X Fong, Y Kim, R Venkatesan, SH Choday… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spin-transfer torque magnetic memory (STT-MRAM) has gained significant research interest
due to its nonvolatility and zero standby leakage, near unlimited endurance, excellent …

Energy-aware adaptive restore schemes for MLC STT-RAM cache

X Chen, N Khoshavi, RF DeMara… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the sake of higher cell density while achieving near-zero standby power, recent research
progress in Magnetic Tunneling Junction (MTJ) devices has leveraged Multi-Level Cell …

Architecture and data migration methodology for L1 cache design with hybrid SRAM and volatile STT-RAM configuration

WK Cheng, YH Ciou, PY Shen - Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Spin-Transfer Torque RAM (STT-RAM) has the advantages of circuit density and
ignorable leakage power. However, it suffers from the bad write latency and poor write …

Loop optimization in presence of stt-mram caches: A study of performance-energy tradeoffs

PY Péneau, R Bouziane, A Gamatié… - … Workshop on Power …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-efficiency is one of the most challenging design issues in both embedded and high-
performance computing domains. The aim is to reduce as much as possible the energy …

Refresh-aware loop scheduling for high performance low power volatile STT-RAM

K Qiu, J Luo, Z Gong, W Zhang, J Wang… - 2016 IEEE 34th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The highlighted advantages of low leakage power, high storage density and immunity to
electronic magnetic radiation make STT-RAM a promising candidate to build cache, SPM or …

Image-content-aware I/O optimization for mobile virtualization

R Chen, Y Wang, J Hu, D Liu, Z Shao, Y Guan - 2016 - dl.acm.org
Mobile virtualization introduces extra layers in software stacks, which leads to performance
degradation. Notably, each I/O operation has to pass through several software layers to …

Exploring the use of volatile STT-RAM for energy efficient video processing

H Zhao, H Sun, Q Yang, T Min… - 2016 17th International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper explores the efficient use of STT-RAM in video processing system by choosing
display processing as a case study. Through architectural analysis, we demonstrate that …