Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Thakkar, Ishan G.
• Pasricha, Sudeep

Titel

3D-ProWiz: An Energy-Efficient and Optically-Interfaced 3D DRAM Architecture with Reduced Data Access Overhead

Ist Teil von

• IEEE transactions on multi-scale computing systems, 2015-07, Vol.1 (3), p.168-184

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper introduces 3D-ProWiz, which is a high-bandwidth, energy-efficient, optically-interfaced 3D DRAM architecture with fine grained data organization and activation. 3D-ProWiz integrates sub-bank level 3D partitioning of the data array to enable fine-grained activation and greater memory parallelism. A novel method of routing the internal memory bus to individual subarrays using TSVs and fanout buffers enables 3D-ProWiz to use smaller dimension subarrays without significant area overhead. The use of TSVs at subarray-level granularity eliminates the need to use slow and power hungry global lines, which in turn reduces the random access latency and activation-precharge energy. 3D-ProWiz yields the best latency and energy consumption values per access among other well-known 3D DRAM architectures. Experimental results with PARSEC benchmarks indicate that 3D-ProWiz achieves 41.9 percent reduction in average latency, 52 percent reduction in average power, and 80.6 percent reduction in energy-delay product (EDP) on average over DRAM architectures from prior work.