Computing with Memory for Energy-Efficient Robust Systems

Download or read book Computing with Memory for Energy-Efficient Robust Systems written by Somnath Paul and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes energy and reliability as major challenges faced by designers of computing frameworks in the nanometer technology regime. The authors describe the existing solutions to address these challenges and then reveal a new reconfigurable computing platform, which leverages high-density nanoscale memory for both data storage and computation to maximize the energy-efficiency and reliability. The energy and reliability benefits of this new paradigm are illustrated and the design challenges are discussed. Various hardware and software aspects of this exciting computing paradigm are described, particularly with respect to hardware-software co-designed frameworks, where the hardware unit can be reconfigured to mimic diverse application behavior. Finally, the energy-efficiency of the paradigm described is compared with other, well-known reconfigurable computing platforms.