Reducing write activities on non-volatile memories in embedded CMPs via data migration and recomputation

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 350-355

  Hu, Jingtong ^a   Xue, Chun Jason ^b   Tseng, Wei Che ^a   He, Yi ^a   Qiu, Meikang ^c   Sha, Edwin H M ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMP; Data migration; Data recomputation; Flash memory; Non volatile memory; Phase change memory; SPM

Indexed keywords

CMP; DATA MIGRATION; NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES; RECOMPUTATION; SPM;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FLASH MEMORY; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

EID: 77956207016     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1837274.1837363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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