Tiered-Latency DRAM (TL-DRAM)
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چکیده
This paper summarizes the idea of Tiered-Latency DRAM, which was published in HPCA 2013 [37]. The key goal of TL-DRAM is to provide low DRAM latency at low cost, a critical problem in modern memory systems [55]. To this end, TL-DRAM introduces heterogeneity into the design of a DRAM subarray by segmenting the bitlines, thereby creating a low-latency, low-energy, low-capacity portion in the subarray (called the near segment), which is close to the sense amplifiers, and a high-latency, high-energy, high-capacity portion, which is farther away from the sense amplifiers. Thus, DRAM becomes heterogeneous with a small portion having lower latency and a large portion having higher latency. Various techniques can be employed to take advantage of the low-latency near segment and this new heterogeneous DRAM substrate, including hardware-based caching and software based caching and memory allocation of frequently used data in the near segment. Evaluations with simple such techniques show significant performance and energy-efficiency benefits [37].
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1601.06903 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016