A survey on techniques for improving Phase Change Memory (PCM) lifetime

M Mohseni, AH Novin - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2023 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT PCMs are Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) that store data using phase-change
semiconductors, such as silicon-chalcogenide glass. In addition to increased integration …

Overcoming the challenges of crossbar resistive memory architectures

C Xu, D Niu, N Muralimanohar… - 2015 IEEE 21st …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The scalability of DRAM faces challenges from increasing power consumption and the
difficulty of building high aspect ratio capacitors. Consequently, emerging memory …

Approximate storage in solid-state memories

A Sampson, J Nelson, K Strauss, L Ceze - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Memories today expose an all-or-nothing correctness model that incurs significant costs in
performance, energy, area, and design complexity. But not all applications need high …

A survey of phase change memory systems

F Xia, DJ Jiang, J Xiong, NH Sun - Journal of Computer Science and …, 2015 - Springer
As the scaling of applications increases, the demand of main memory capacity increases in
order to serve large working set. It is difficult for DRAM (dynamic random access memory) …

NVM Duet: Unified working memory and persistent store architecture

RS Liu, DY Shen, CL Yang, SC Yu… - ACM SIGARCH Computer …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies have gained a lot of attention recently.
The byte-addressability and high density of NVM enable computer architects to build large …

High-density image storage using approximate memory cells

Q Guo, K Strauss, L Ceze, HS Malvar - ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 2016 - dl.acm.org
This paper proposes tailoring image encoding for an approximate storage substrate. We
demonstrate that indiscriminately storing encoded images in approximate memory …

Approximation-aware multi-level cells STT-RAM cache architecture

F Sampaio, M Shafique, B Zatt… - … and Synthesis for …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current manycore processors exhibit large on-chip last-level caches that may reach sizes of
32MB-128MB and incur high power/energy consumption. The emerging Multi-Level Cells …

Reliable nonvolatile memories: Techniques and measures

S Swami, K Mohanram - IEEE Design & Test, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliability continues to be a severe challenge in the development of emerging memories. In
this article, the authors offer a comprehensive survey of reliability enhancement techniques …

A survey of non-volatile main memory technologies: State-of-the-arts, practices, and future directions

HK Liu, D Chen, H Jin, XF Liao, B He, K Hu… - Journal of Computer …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Non-Volatile Main Memories (NVMMs) have recently emerged as a promising
technology for future memory systems. Generally, NVMMs have many desirable properties …

Balancing performance and lifetime of MLC PCM by using a region retention monitor

M Zhang, L Zhang, L Jiang, Z Liu… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi Level Cell (MLC) Phase Change Memory (PCM) is an enhancement of PCM
technology, which provides higher capacity by allowing multiple digital bits to be stored in a …