Stacking Persistent Embedded Memories Based On Oxide Transistors Upon GPGPU Platforms (Georgia Tech)


A new technical paper titled "CMOS+X: Stacking Persistent Embedded Memories based on Oxide Transistors upon GPGPU Platforms" was published by Georgia Tech. Abstract "In contemporary general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs), the continued increase in raw arithmetic throughput is constrained by the capabilities of the register file (single-cycle) and last-level cache (high bandwidth... » read more

Moore Memory Problems


The six-transistor static memory cell (SRAM) has been the mainstay of on-chip memory for several decades and has stood the test of time. Today, many advanced SoCs have 50% of the chip area covered with these memories and so they are critical to continued scaling. “The SRAM being used in modern systems is similar to the SRAM they were using in the 1970s and 1980s,” says Duncan Bremner, ch... » read more