Architectural techniques to enable reliable and scalable memory systems

Nair, Prashant J.

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Architectural techniques to enable reliable and scalable memory systems

dc.contributor.advisor	Qureshi, Moinuddin K.
dc.contributor.author	Nair, Prashant J.
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Yalamanchili, Sudhakar
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Mukhopadhyay, Saibal
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Prvulovic, Milos
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Mutlu, Onur
dc.contributor.department	Electrical and Computer Engineering
dc.date.accessioned	2017-06-07T17:48:38Z
dc.date.available	2017-06-07T17:48:38Z
dc.date.created	2017-05
dc.date.issued	2017-04-17
dc.date.submitted	May 2017
dc.date.updated	2017-06-07T17:48:38Z
dc.description.abstract	High capacity and scalable memory systems play a vital role in enabling our desk- tops, smartphones, and pervasive technologies like Internet of Things (IoT). Unfortunately, memory systems are becoming increasingly prone to faults. This is because we rely on technology scaling to improve memory density, and at small feature sizes, memory cells tend to break easily. Today, memory reliability is seen as the key impediment towards us- ing high-density devices, adopting new technologies, and even building the next Exascale supercomputer. To ensure even a bare-minimum level of reliability, present-day solutions tend to have high performance, power and area overheads. Ideally, we would like memory systems to remain robust, scalable, and implementable while keeping the overheads to a minimum. This dissertation describes how simple cross-layer architectural techniques can provide orders of magnitude higher reliability and enable seamless scalability for memory systems while incurring negligible overheads.
dc.description.degree	Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/58309
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject	Memory systems
dc.subject	Reliability
dc.subject	Moore's law
dc.subject	Computer architecture
dc.subject	Scaling
dc.title	Architectural techniques to enable reliable and scalable memory systems
dc.type	Text
dc.type.genre	Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor	Qureshi, Moinuddin K.
local.contributor.corporatename	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename	College of Engineering
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thesis.degree.level	Doctoral