• DocumentCode
    3121432
  • Title

    A novel read-while-write (RWW) algorithm for phase change memory

  • Author

    Sheng, Ding ; Zhitang, Song ; Houpeng, Chen

  • Author_Institution
    State Key Lab. of Functional Mater. for Inf., Shanghai Inst. of Micro-Syst. & Inf. Technol., Shanghai, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    7-9 Nov. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A novel read-while-write (RWW) algorithm for phase change memory (PCM) is proposed. It performs the verify operation for last cell, the write operation for current cell and the pre-read operation for next cell simultaneously. Therefore, it can reduce the timing cost by the data-comparison write (DCW) algorithm and the program & verify (P&V) algorithm. The performance analysis and simulation results show that the percent of saving timing by RWW is >;22.6%.
  • Keywords
    phase change memories; RWW algorithm; data-comparison write algorithm; phase change memory; program & verify algorithm; read-while-write algorithm; Computer architecture; Microprocessors; Phase change materials; Phase change memory; Registers; Switches; Timing; DCW; P&V; PCM; RWW; algorithm;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Non-Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (NVMTS), 2011 11th Annual
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1428-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NVMTS.2011.6137084
  • Filename
    6137084