{"title":"Enabling efficient fine-grained DRAM activations with interleaved I/O","authors":"Chao Zhang, Xiaochen Guo","doi":"10.1109/ISLPED.2017.8009201","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"DRAM contributes a significant part of the total system energy consumption, and row activation is one of the most energy inefficient components. Prior works on fine-grained DRAM activation rely on increasing the number of local wires to avoid degrading performance, which adds area overheads. This work proposes interleaved I/O to allow data transferring from different partially activated banks to share the global I/O. The proposed DRAM architecture allows half-, quarter-, or one-eighth- page activations without changing the wires. The system performance is competitive as compared with other fine-grained activation designs. For the evaluated benchmarks, an average of up to 15.7% performance improvement is achieved among all of the configurations. Furthermore, the total DRAM energy can be reduced by an average of 11.2% for halfpage, 17.2% for quarterpage, and 22.3% for one-eighth-page.","PeriodicalId":385714,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2017 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISLPED.2017.8009201","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
DRAM contributes a significant part of the total system energy consumption, and row activation is one of the most energy inefficient components. Prior works on fine-grained DRAM activation rely on increasing the number of local wires to avoid degrading performance, which adds area overheads. This work proposes interleaved I/O to allow data transferring from different partially activated banks to share the global I/O. The proposed DRAM architecture allows half-, quarter-, or one-eighth- page activations without changing the wires. The system performance is competitive as compared with other fine-grained activation designs. For the evaluated benchmarks, an average of up to 15.7% performance improvement is achieved among all of the configurations. Furthermore, the total DRAM energy can be reduced by an average of 11.2% for halfpage, 17.2% for quarterpage, and 22.3% for one-eighth-page.