Non-volatile memories (NVMs) have aroused vast interest in hybrid memory systems due to their promising features of byte-addressability, high storage density, low cost per byte, and near-zero standby energy consumption. However, since NVMs limited write endurance, latency, consumption, it is still challenging directly replace traditional dynamic random access (DRAM) with NVMs. Many studies prop...

The design and architecture of a reconngurable memory BIST unit is presented. The proposed memory BIST unit could accommodate changes in the test algorithm with no impact to the hardware. Diierent types of march test algorithms could be realized using the proposed memory BIST unit and the proposed architecture allows addition and elimination of the memory BIST components. Therefore memories wit...

A new concept of parallel architecture for image processing is presented in this paper. Named LAPMAM (Linear array processors with Multi-mode Access Memory), this architecture, for a 512 x 512 image, has 512 processors and four memory planes each of 5122 memory modules. One important characteristic of this architecture is its memories modules that allow different access modes: RAM, FIFO, normal...