RRAM/ Near Memory Computing (NMC) Survey - Reading Notes 0705

最近在做近存储计算方面的调研，主要关注RRAM在近存储计算方面的发展情况和前景，这个系列是阅读笔记，比较杂乱。系统些的小结会放到其他栏目中

Near-memory computing: Past, present, and future

Abstract

The conventional approach of moving data to the CPU for computation has become a significant performance bottleneck for emerging scale-out data-intensive applications due to their limited data reuse.

The advancement in 3D integration technologies has made the decade-old concept of coupling compute units close to the memory - called near-memory computing (NMC) - more viable.

1. Introduction

memory wall: memory technology has not been able to keep up with advancements in processor technology in terms of latency and energy consumption.

memory hierarchies

Dennard scaling ???

applocations exhibit massive data parallelism and low operational intensity with a limited locality.

NMC: aims at processing close to where the data resides.

three-dimensional stacking: true enabler of precessing close to the memory. Allows the stacking of logic and memory together using through silicon via’s (TSV) that helps in reducing memory access latency, power consumption and provides much higher bandwidth.

competing p