Nvram Applications in the Architectural Revolutions of Main Memory Implementation – a Memristor Walkthrough
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A machine of storage, a machine to compute, a machine to envisage, a magical machine of job parallelization all these describing expressions are not enough to picturise the inevitability of a valuable machine – The Computer. The feature of save and retrieve contributed much to the expert working of the system. The volatile and non-volatile levels of storage have been years long-standing foundation of most computer systems and have influenced the design of system concepts. The volatility and the random accessibility feature of the main memory have many pros and corns. The complex concepts of booting, demand paging and virtual memory happened due to the above features. The discovery of Memristor components contributed to the capability of maintaining non volatility in random accesses mode. This paper inspects the issues why RAM is volatile?, possibilities of persistent main memory, software enhancements, Memristor applications and alternatives in the area of memory architecture.
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