Recent trends of CMOS scaling and increasing number of on-chip cores have led to a large
increase in the size of on-chip caches. Since SRAM has low density and consumes large …

Hardware techniques and environments underwent significant transformations in the field of
information technology, represented by high-performance processors and hardware …

Hybrid caches consisting of static RAM (SRAM) and spin-torque transfer (STT)-RAM have
been proposed recently for energy efficiency. To explore the advantages of hybrid cache …

Multi-level Cell (MLC) Phase Change Memory (PCM) has many attractive features to be
used as main memory for embedded systems. These features include low power, high …

On-chip power consumption is one of the fundamental challenges of current technology
scaling. Cache memories consume a sizable part of this power, particularly due to leakage …

Existing Nonvolatile Memories (NVMs) have many attractive features to be the main memory
of embedded systems. These features include low power, high density, and better …

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 …

Future GPUs should have larger L2 caches based on the current trends in VLSI technology
and GPU architectures toward increase of processing core count. Larger L2 caches …

Mobile devices have become the most important devices in our life. However, they are
limited in battery capacity. Therefore, low-power computing is crucial for their long lifetime. A …

New storage class memory (SCM) technologies, such as phase change memory (PCM) and
memristors, are not only byte-addressable like DRAM but also non-volatile like traditional …