Architectural Techniques for Disturbance Mitigation in Future Memory SystemsSeyedzadeh Delcheh, Seyed Mohammad (2019) Architectural Techniques for Disturbance Mitigation in Future Memory Systems. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished) This is the latest version of this item.
AbstractWith the recent advancements of CMOS technology, scaling down the feature size has improved memory capacity, power, performance and cost. However, such dramatic progress in memory technology has increasingly made the precise control of the manufacturing process below 22nm more difficult. In spite of all these virtues, the technology scaling road map predicts significant process variation from cell-to-cell. It also predicts electromagnetic disturbances among memory cells that easily deviate their circuit characterizations from design goals and pose threats to the reliability, energy efficiency and security. This dissertation proposes simple, energy-efficient and low-overhead techniques that combat the challenges resulting from technology scaling in future memory systems. Specifically, this dissertation investigates solutions tuned to particular types of disturbance challenges, such as inter-cell or intra-cell disturbance, that are energy efficient while guaranteeing memory reliability. The contribution of this dissertation will be threefold. First, it uses a deterministic The work in this dissertation provides important insights into how to tackle the critical reliability challenges that high-density memory systems confront in deep scaled technology nodes. It advocates for various memory technologies to guarantee reliability of future memory systems while incurring nominal costs in terms of energy, area and performance. Share
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