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CACM
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Phase change memory architecture and the quest for scalability
Memory scaling is in jeopardy as charge storage and sensing mechanisms become less reliable for prevalent memory technologies, such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM). In cont...
Benjamin C. Lee, Engin Ipek, Onur Mutlu, Doug Burg...
SIGGRAPH
1994
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
FBRAM: a new form of memory optimized for 3D graphics
FBRAM, a new form of dynamic random access memory that greatly accelerates the rendering of Z-buffered primitives, is presented. Two key concepts make this acceleration possible. ...
Michael F. Deering, Stephen A. Schlapp, Michael G....
MICRO
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
ESKIMO: Energy savings using Semantic Knowledge of Inconsequential Memory Occupancy for DRAM subsystem
Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is used as the bulk of the main memory in most computing systems and its energy and power consumption has become a first-class design considera...
Ciji Isen, Lizy Kurian John