Cache revive: Architecting volatile STT-RAM caches for enhanced performance in CMPs

Adwait Jog; Asit K. Mishra; Cong Xu; Yuan Xie; Vijaykrishnan Narayanan; Ravishankar Iyer; Chita R. Das

doi:10.1145/2228360.2228406

Cache revive: Architecting volatile STT-RAM caches for enhanced performance in CMPs

Adwait Jog, Asit K. Mishra, Cong Xu, Yuan Xie, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Ravishankar Iyer, Chita R. Das

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Abstract

High density, low leakage and non-volatility are the attractive features of Spin-Transfer-Torque-RAM (STT-RAM), which has made it a strong competitor against SRAM as a universal memory replacement in multi-core systems. However, STT-RAM suffers from high write latency and energy which has impeded its widespread adoption. To this end, we look at trading-off STT-RAM's non-volatility property (data-retention-time) to overcome these problems. We formulate the relationship between retention-time and write-latency, and find optimal retention-time for architecting an efficient cache hierarchy using STT-RAM. Our results show that, compared to SRAM-based design, our proposal can improve performance and energy consumption by 18% and 60%, respectively.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC '12
Pages	243-252
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2228360.2228406
State	Published - Jul 11 2012
Event	49th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC '12 - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: Jun 3 2012 → Jun 7 2012

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Name	Proceedings - Design Automation Conference
ISSN (Print)	0738-100X

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Other	49th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC '12
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco, CA
Period	6/3/12 → 6/7/12

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Computer Science Applications
Control and Systems Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Modeling and Simulation

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Jog, A, Mishra, AK, Xu, C, Xie, Y, Narayanan, V, Iyer, R & Das, CR 2012, Cache revive: Architecting volatile STT-RAM caches for enhanced performance in CMPs. in Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC '12. Proceedings - Design Automation Conference, pp. 243-252, 49th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC '12, San Francisco, CA, United States, 6/3/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2228360.2228406

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