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NEMsCAM: A novel CAM cell based on nano-electro-mechanical switch and CMOS for energy efficient TLBs
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Autor/a:
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Seyedi, Azam; Karakostas, Vasileios; Cosemans, Stefan; Cristal Kestelman, Adrián; Nemirovsky, Mario; Unsal, Osman
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Barcelona Supercomputing Center |
Abstract:
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In this paper we propose a novel Content Addressable Memory (CAM) cell, NEMsCAM, based on both Nano-electro-mechanical (NEM) switches and CMOS technologies. The memory component of the proposed CAM cell is designed with two complementary non-volatile NEM switches and located on top of the CMOS-based comparison component. As a use case for the NEMsCAM cell, we design first-level data and instruction Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLBs) with 16nm CMOS technology at 2GHz. The simulations show that the NEMsCAM TLB reduces the energy consumption per search operation (by 27%), write operation (by 41.9%) and standby mode (by 53.9%), and the area (by 40.5%) compared to a CMOS-only TLB with minimal performance overhead. |
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We thank all anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. This work is supported in part by the European Union (FEDER funds) under contract TIN2012-34557, and the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under the ParaDIME project (GA no. 318693) |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electrònica -Nano-electro-mechanical systems -Energy consumption -Content Addressable Memory (CAM) -Nano-electro-mechanical (NEM) -Highly energy efficient -Energia--Consum -Sistemes nanoelectromecànics |
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Artículo - Versión presentada Objeto de conferencia |
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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