Xin Xu , Yang Liu , Yahui Su , Cong Sun , Yuxiong Xue , Lina Ju , Shuye Zhang
{"title":"Fatigue behavior of 3D stacked packaging structures under extreme thermal cycling condition","authors":"Xin Xu , Yang Liu , Yahui Su , Cong Sun , Yuxiong Xue , Lina Ju , Shuye Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.memori.2023.100032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In deep space exploration environment, electronic devices face severe tests. C4 solder joints and TSV, as the weak links of the three-dimensional packaging structure, have a significant impact on the reliability of the packaging structure. This work focuses on the typical three-dimensional packaging structure and utilizes finite element software to analyze the influence of extreme thermal cycling on the fatigue life of packaging structure. The results show that under the extreme temperature range of -100<span><math><mo>∼</mo></math></span>120 °C, the maximum stress concentration of a typical 3D packaging structure occurs at the interface between the TSV and Si chip, and the TSV and C4 solder joints remote from the center bear greater stress and strain. The maximum stress of TSV appears at the end edge of TSV at the upper left corner. The maximum stress of the C4 welding spot appears on the second welding spot in the rightmost column. The most dangerous TSV fatigue life is 1.07 × 10<sup>7</sup> cycles calculated by combining the finite element simulation results with the Coffin Manson model. The life of the most dangerous C4 solder joint is 2892 cycles. C4 solder joint is the failure-sensitive location of the three-dimensional packaging structure under extreme ambient temperature, and optimization design is required in the subsequent work to improve its reliable life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100915,"journal":{"name":"Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100032"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50199553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design impact on three gate Dynamic Flash Memory (3G_DFM) for long hole retention time and robust disturbance shield","authors":"Koji Sakui, Yisuo Li, Masakazu Kakumu, Kenichi Kanazawa, Iwao Kunishima, Yoshihisa Iwata, Nozomu Harada","doi":"10.1016/j.memori.2023.100054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>TCAD simulation using Silvaco software has shown that the 3G_DFM, which has <em>SG1</em> (Select Gate 1), <em>PL</em> (Plate Line Gate), and <em>SG2</em> (Select Gate 2) between <em>SL</em> (Source Line) and <em>BL</em> (Bit Line), has a long retention time of 100ms at 85 °C, and a robust disturbance shield which is a thousand times <em>BL</em> stress. The two select gates <em>SG1</em> and <em>SG2</em> protect the recombination of holes in the <em>FB</em> (Floating Body) at the <em>SL</em> and <em>BL</em> pn-junctions, and shield the <em>BL</em> stress arising during other page operations, which leads to the <em>GIDL (Gate Induced Drain Leakage)</em> current.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100915,"journal":{"name":"Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100054"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50199564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hao You , Amirali Amirsoleimani , Jianxiong Xu , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi , Roman Genov
{"title":"A subranging nonuniform sampling memristive neural network-based analog-to-digital converter","authors":"Hao You , Amirali Amirsoleimani , Jianxiong Xu , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi , Roman Genov","doi":"10.1016/j.memori.2023.100038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100038","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This work presents a novel 4-bit subranging nonuniform sampling (NUS) memristive neural network-based analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with improved performance trade-off among speed, power, area, and accuracy. The proposed design preserves the memristive neural network calibration and utilizes a trainable memristor weight to adapt to device mismatch and increase accuracy. Rather than conventional binary searching, we adopt quaternary searching in the ADC to realize subranging architecture’s coarse and fine bits determination. A level-crossing nonuniform sampling (NUS) is introduced to the proposed ADC to enhance the ENOB under the same resolutions, power, and area consumption. Area and power consumption are reduced through circuit sharing between different stages of bit determination. The proposed 4-bit ADC achieves a highest ENOB of 5.96 and 5.6 at cut-off frequency (128 <span><math><mi>MHz</mi></math></span>) with power consumption of 0.515 <span><math><mi>mW</mi></math></span> and a figure of merit (FoM) of 82.95 <span><math><mi>fJ/conv</mi></math></span>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100915,"journal":{"name":"Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100038"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50199593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M.A. Carrasco-Aguilar, F.E. Morales-López, C. Sánchez-López, Rocio Ochoa-Montiel
{"title":"Flux-charge analysis and experimental verification of a parallel Memristor–Capacitor circuit","authors":"M.A. Carrasco-Aguilar, F.E. Morales-López, C. Sánchez-López, Rocio Ochoa-Montiel","doi":"10.1016/j.memori.2023.100043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100043","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article, the flux-charge analysis method is applied to obtain the theoretical response of the voltage generated in a parallel Memristor–Capacitor (M–C) circuit excited by an input pulse generator with a 100 kHz frequency, 5 V amplitude and a 50 ohms output impedance. The theoretical solution of the nonlinear ordinary differential equation that results when applying the method is reached by a numerical method. As a memristive circuit, a previously reported floating memristor emulator was used. The response obtained is compared with the experimental response, generating evidence that the applied analysis method yields an acceptable margin of error with regards to the experimental results obtained, contrasting with other similar reports, where the analyzes are based on theoretical memristive models, and show simulation results only. Summary, the paper would contribute to the analysis and experimental verification of the parallel M–C circuit subjected to a real switched exciting source, using a memristance equation established in an emulator that is different from the equations commonly used in the literature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100915,"journal":{"name":"Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100043"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50199628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dina Fakhry , Mohamed Abdelsalam , M. Watheq El-Kharashi , Mona Safar
{"title":"A review on computational storage devices and near memory computing for high performance applications","authors":"Dina Fakhry , Mohamed Abdelsalam , M. Watheq El-Kharashi , Mona Safar","doi":"10.1016/j.memori.2023.100051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100051","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The von Neumann bottleneck is imposed due to the explosion of data transfers and emerging data-intensive applications in heterogeneous system architectures. The conventional computation approach of transferring data to CPU is no longer suitable especially with the cost it imposes. Given the increasing storage capacities, moving extensive data volumes between storage and computation cannot scale up. Hence, high-performance data processing mechanisms are needed, which may be achieved by bringing computation closer to data. Gathering insights where data is stored helps deal with energy efficiency, low latency, as well as security. Storage bus bandwidth is also saved when only computation results are delivered to the host memory. Various applications, including database acceleration, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), offloading (compression/encryption/encoding) and others can perform better and become more scalable if the “move process to data” paradigm is applied. Embedding processing engines inside Solid-State Drives (SSDs), transforming them to Computational Storage Devices (CSDs), provides the needed data processing solution. In this paper, we review the prior art on Near Data Processing (NDP) with focus on In-Storage Computing (ISC), identifying main challenges and potential gaps for future research directions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100915,"journal":{"name":"Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100051"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50200166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Realization of multi-mode universal shadow filter and its application as a frequency-hopping filter","authors":"Divya Singh, Sajal K. Paul","doi":"10.1016/j.memori.2023.100049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100049","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This work presents a new active block called the differential current conveyor cascaded transconductance amplifier (DCCCTA) and implemented multi-mode biquadratic universal shadow filter. The frequency-hopping filter is implemented using a multi-mode universal shadow filter. The proposed circuit has two modes of operation: current mode (CM) and transadmittance mode (TAM). All-pass (AP), band-pass (BP), band-reject (BR), high-pass (HP), and low-pass (LP) responses are simultaneously accomplished. As intended, low input impedance for CM and high input impedance for TAM are acquired, while high output impedance is attained for both modes of operation. Inter-modulation distortion (IMD), percentage total harmonic distortion (%THD), and Monte Carlo analysis are also obtained. The theoretical results are verified using Cadence Virtuoso in 180 nm TSMC technology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100915,"journal":{"name":"Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100049"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50199566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconfigurable optoelectronic absorber based on nested nano disk-ribbon graphene Pattern in THz range","authors":"Ilghar Rezaei , Ava Salmanpour , Toktam Aghaee","doi":"10.1016/j.memori.2023.100039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A two-layers, multi-band super absorber with the capability of being tuned is proposed in this paper. The idea behind the design is to realize periodic arrays of graphene disks via graphene ribbons with different lengths. Then circuit modeling is developed to be used alongside the impedance matching concept to achieve more than ten absorption peaks. The exploited spacer is a lossless polymer in the THz frequency range while the bottom of the device is occupied by a relatively thick golden plate. The developed circuit model description is verified by full-wave simulation. According to the simulation results, the proposed absorber shows more than ten peaks with absorption over 90%. The peak frequencies are interestingly able to be shifted via exploited single chemical potential variations. Additionally, deviations of absorber response against graphene electron relaxation time and device geometry are shown to be marginal which makes the presented meta-absorber, a reliable optical device.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100915,"journal":{"name":"Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100039"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50199594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvement of memory performance of 3-D NAND flash memory with retrograde channel doping","authors":"Deepika Gupta , Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay , Ankur Beohar , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma","doi":"10.1016/j.memori.2023.100031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The examination of the effect of retrograde channel doping on reliability and performance of 3-D junction-free NAND based flash memory is done for this paper. Specifically, we study the program characteristics, data retention capability junction-free NAND flash memory with half pitch range from 35 nm to 12 nm. Based on our analysis, we highlight that the retrograde channel doping approach can improve not only the SCEs but also the program speed and data control time for 3-D junction-free NAND flash memory, without varying the oxide stack in charge trap-based flash memory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100915,"journal":{"name":"Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50199597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Orian Leitersdorf, Yahav Boneh, Gonen Gazit, Ronny Ronen, Shahar Kvatinsky
{"title":"FourierPIM: High-throughput in-memory Fast Fourier Transform and polynomial multiplication","authors":"Orian Leitersdorf, Yahav Boneh, Gonen Gazit, Ronny Ronen, Shahar Kvatinsky","doi":"10.1016/j.memori.2023.100034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2023.100034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is essential for various applications ranging from signal processing to convolution and polynomial multiplication. The groundbreaking Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm reduces DFT time complexity from the naive <span><math><mrow><mi>O</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> to <span><math><mrow><mi>O</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>log</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span>, and recent works have sought further acceleration through parallel architectures such as GPUs. Unfortunately, accelerators such as GPUs cannot exploit their full computing capabilities since memory access becomes the bottleneck. Therefore, this paper accelerates the FFT algorithm using digital Processing-in-Memory (PIM) architectures that shift computation into the memory by exploiting physical devices capable of both storage and logic (e.g., memristors). We propose an <span><math><mrow><mi>O</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mo>log</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> in-memory FFT algorithm that can also be performed in parallel across multiple arrays for <em>high-throughput batched execution</em>, supporting both fixed-point and floating-point numbers. Through the convolution theorem, we extend this algorithm to <span><math><mrow><mi>O</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mo>log</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> polynomial multiplication – a fundamental task for applications such as cryptography. We evaluate FourierPIM on a publicly-available cycle-accurate simulator that verifies both correctness and performance, and demonstrate <span><math><mrow><mtext>5–15</mtext><mo>×</mo></mrow></math></span> throughput and <span><math><mrow><mtext>4–13</mtext><mo>×</mo></mrow></math></span> energy improvement over the NVIDIA cuFFT library on state-of-the-art GPUs for FFT and polynomial multiplication.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100915,"journal":{"name":"Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100034"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50199598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kazi Asifuzzaman, Narasinga Rao Miniskar, Aaron R. Young, Frank Liu, Jeffrey S. Vetter
{"title":"A survey on processing-in-memory techniques: Advances and challenges","authors":"Kazi Asifuzzaman, Narasinga Rao Miniskar, Aaron R. Young, Frank Liu, Jeffrey S. Vetter","doi":"10.1016/j.memori.2022.100022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memori.2022.100022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Processing-in-memory (PIM) techniques have gained much attention from computer architecture researchers, and significant research effort has been invested in exploring and developing such techniques. Increasing the research activity dedicated to improving PIM techniques will hopefully help deliver PIM’s promise to solve or significantly reduce memory access bottleneck problems for memory-intensive applications. We also believe it is imperative to track the advances made in PIM research to identify open challenges and enable the research community to make informed decisions and adjust future research directions. In this survey, we analyze recent studies that explored PIM techniques, summarize the advances made, compare recent PIM architectures, and identify target application domains and suitable memory technologies. We also discuss proposals that address unresolved issues of PIM designs (e.g., address translation/mapping of operands, workload analysis to identify application segments that can be accelerated with PIM, OS/runtime support, and coherency issues that must be resolved to incorporate PIM). We believe this work can serve as a useful reference for researchers exploring PIM techniques.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100915,"journal":{"name":"Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100022"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50200136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}