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TVLSI
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Scalable QoS-Aware Memory Controller for High-Bandwidth Packet Memory
This paper proposes a high-performance scalable quality-of-service (QoS)-aware memory controller for the packet memory where packet data are stored in network routers. A major chal...
Hyuk-Jun Lee, Eui-Young Chung
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Impulse: Building a Smarter Memory Controller
Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through...
John B. Carter, Wilson C. Hsieh, Leigh Stoller, Ma...
PACS
2004
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Context-Independent Codes for Off-Chip Interconnects
Abstract. This paper introduces the concept of context-independent coding using frequency-based mapping schemes in order to reduce off-chip interconnect power consumption. State-of...
Kartik Mohanram, Scott Rixner
ISCAS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Optimal 2 sub-bank memory architecture for bit plane coder of JPEG2000
—JPEG2000 image compression standard is designed to cater the needs of a large span of applications including numerous consumer products. However, its use is still restricted due...
Amit Kumar Gupta, Saeid Nooshabadi, David S. Taubm...
FPL
2007
Springer
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14 years 6 months ago
An OCM based shared Memory controller for Virtex 4
In this paper, we present a shared instruction and data memory controller for the On-Chip Memory (OCM) bus of the PowerPC embedded in the Virtex-4 chip. The traditional design of ...
Bas Breijer, Filipa Duarte, Stephan Wong
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Simplifying Active Memory Clusters by Leveraging Directory Protocol Threads
Address re-mapping techniques in so-called active memory systems have been shown to dramatically increase the performance of applications with poor cache and/or communication beha...
Dhiraj D. Kalamkar, Mainak Chaudhuri, Mark Heinric...
CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Predator: a predictable SDRAM memory controller
Memory requirements of intellectual property components (IP) in contemporary multi-processor systems-on-chip are increasing. Large high-speed external memories, such as DDR2 SDRAM...
Benny Akesson, Kees Goossens, Markus Ringhofer
ISCA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Self-Optimizing Memory Controllers: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Efficiently utilizing off-chip DRAM bandwidth is a critical issue in designing cost-effective, high-performance chip multiprocessors (CMPs). Conventional memory controllers deli...
Engin Ipek, Onur Mutlu, José F. Martí...
ISCA
2009
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Achieving predictable performance through better memory controller placement in many-core CMPs
In the near term, Moore’s law will continue to provide an increasing number of transistors and therefore an increasing number of on-chip cores. Limited pin bandwidth prevents th...
Dennis Abts, Natalie D. Enright Jerger, John Kim, ...