Tiered-latency DRAM: A low latency and low cost DRAM architecture

D Lee, Y Kim, V Seshadri, J Liu… - 2013 IEEE 19th …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The capacity and cost-per-bit of DRAM have historically scaled to satisfy the needs of
increasingly large and complex computer systems. However, DRAM latency has remained …

Adaptive-latency DRAM: Optimizing DRAM timing for the common-case

D Lee, Y Kim, G Pekhimenko, S Khan… - 2015 IEEE 21st …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In current systems, memory accesses to a DRAM chip must obey a set of minimum latency
restrictions specified in the DRAM standard. Such timing parameters exist to guarantee …

SoftMC: A flexible and practical open-source infrastructure for enabling experimental DRAM studies

H Hassan, N Vijaykumar, S Khan… - … Symposium on High …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DRAM is the primary technology used for main memory in modern systems. Unfortunately,
as DRAM scales down to smaller technology nodes, it faces key challenges in both data …

CLR-DRAM: A low-cost DRAM architecture enabling dynamic capacity-latency trade-off

H Luo, T Shahroodi, H Hassan, M Patel… - 2020 ACM/IEEE 47th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DRAM is the prevalent main memory technology, but its long access latency can limit the
performance of many workloads. Although prior works provide DRAM designs that reduce …

Mini-rank: Adaptive DRAM architecture for improving memory power efficiency

H Zheng, J Lin, Z Zhang, E Gorbatov… - 2008 41st IEEE/ACM …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The widespread use of multicore processors has dramatically increased the demand on
high memory bandwidth and large memory capacity. As DRAM subsystem designs stretch to …

Low-cost inter-linked subarrays (LISA): Enabling fast inter-subarray data movement in DRAM

KK Chang, PJ Nair, D Lee, S Ghose… - … Symposium on High …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new DRAM design that enables fast and energy-efficient bulk data
movement across subarrays in a DRAM chip. While bulk data movement is a key operation …

Solar-DRAM: Reducing DRAM access latency by exploiting the variation in local bitlines

J Kim, M Patel, H Hassan… - 2018 IEEE 36th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DRAM latency is a major bottleneck for many applications in modern computing systems. In
this work, we rigorously characterize the effects of reducing DRAM access latency on 282 …

Improving DRAM performance by parallelizing refreshes with accesses

KKW Chang, D Lee, Z Chishti… - 2014 IEEE 20th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern DRAM cells are periodically refreshed to prevent data loss due to leakage.
Commodity DDR (double data rate) DRAM refreshes cells at the rank level. This degrades …

Understanding and improving the latency of DRAM-based memory systems

KK Chang - 2017 - search.proquest.com
Over the past two decades, the storage capacity and access bandwidth of main memory
have improved tremendously, by 128x and 20x, respectively. These improvements are …

Defect analysis and cost-effective resilience architecture for future DRAM devices

S Cha, O Seongil, H Shin, S Hwang… - … Symposium on High …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technology scaling has continuously improved the density, performance, energy efficiency,
and cost of DRAM-based main memory systems. Starting from sub-20nm processes …