Intelligent RAM (IRAM): the industrial setting, applications, and architectures

Author

Patterson, David ; Asanovic, Krste ; Brown, Aaron ; Fromm, Richard ; Golbus, Jason ; Gribstad, Benjamin ; Keeton, Kimberly ; Kozyrakis, Christoforos ; Martin, David ; Perissakis, Stylianos ; Thomas, Randi ; Treuhaft, Noah ; Yelick, Katherine

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Div., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

12-15 Oct 1997

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

7

Abstract

The goal of intelligent RAM (IRAM) is to design a cost-effective computer by designing a processor in a memory fabrication process, instead of in a conventional logic fabrication process, and include memory on-chip. To design a processor in a DRAM process one must learn about the business and culture of the DRAMs, which is quite different from microprocessors. The authors describe some of those differences and their current vision of IRAM applications, architectures, and implementations

Keywords

memory architecture; random-access storage; storage management chips; architectures; cost-effective computer; intelligent RAM; memory fabrication process; on-chip memory; processor design; Application software; Costs; Fabrication; Logic design; Logic testing; Microprocessors; Plastic packaging; Process design; Random access memory; Read-write memory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1997. ICCD '97. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1063-6404

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8206-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.1997.628842

Filename

628842