A Novel High Performance and Energy Efficient NUCA Architecture for STT-MRAM LLCs With Thermal Consideration

doi:10.1109/TCAD.2019.2897707

	A Novel High Performance and Energy Efficient NUCA Architecture for STT-MRAM LLCs With Thermal Consideration
	Wu, Bi 1,2; Dai, Pengcheng 1,2; Cheng, Yuanqing 2; Wang, Ying 3; Yang, Jianlei 1,4; Wang, Zhaohao 1,2; Liu, Dijun 5; Zhao, Weisheng 1,2
	2020-04-01
发表期刊	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
ISSN	0278-0070
卷号	39 期号:4 页码:803-815
摘要	As the speed gap of the modern processor and the off-chip main memory enlarges, on-chip cache capacity increases to sustain the performance scaling. As a result, the cache power occupies a large portion of the total power budget. Spin transfer torque magnetic memory (STT-MRAM) is proposed as a promising solution for the low power cache design due to its high integration density and ultralow leakage power. Nevertheless, the high write power and latency of STT-MRAM become new barriers for the commercialization of this emerging technology. In this paper, we investigate the thermal effect on the access performance of STT-MRAM, and observe that the temperature can affect the write delay and energy significantly. Then, we explore the nonuniform cache access (NUCA) design of the chip-multiprocessors with STT-MRAM-based last level cache (LLC). A thermal aware data migration policy, called "Thermosiphon," which takes advantage of the thermal property of STT-MRAM, is proposed to reduce the LLC write energy. This policy splits the LLC into different regions dynamically based on the thermal distribution monitored by thermal sensors available on-chip, and adaptively migrates write intensive data among different thermal regions considering the thermal gradient. Compared to the conventional NUCA design, our proposed design can save 41.2% write energy at most and 13.01% on average with negligible hardware overhead.
关键词	System-on-chip Computer architecture Magnetic tunneling Transistors Switches Thermal sensors Organizations Cache data migration low power spin transfer torque magnetic memory (STT-MRAM) thermal gradient
DOI	10.1109/TCAD.2019.2897707
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[61401008] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61704005] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61571023] ; Beijing Natural Science Foundation[4192035] ; International Collaboration Project[B16001] ; National Key Technology Program of China[2017ZX01032101] ; Special Foundation of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission[Z161100000216149] ; State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences[CARCH201602]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS记录号	WOS:000522191600005
出版者	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
引用统计	被引频次：5[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/14043
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Zhao, Weisheng
作者单位	1.Beihang Univ, Fert Beijing Inst, BDBC, Beijing 100191, Peoples R China 2.Beihang Univ, Sch Microelect, Beijing 100191, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 4.Beihang Univ, Sch Comp Sci & Engn, Beijing 100191, Peoples R China 5.China Acad Informat & Commun Technol, Beijing 100191, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wu, Bi,Dai, Pengcheng,Cheng, Yuanqing,et al. A Novel High Performance and Energy Efficient NUCA Architecture for STT-MRAM LLCs With Thermal Consideration[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS,2020,39(4):803-815.
APA	Wu, Bi.,Dai, Pengcheng.,Cheng, Yuanqing.,Wang, Ying.,Yang, Jianlei.,...&Zhao, Weisheng.(2020).A Novel High Performance and Energy Efficient NUCA Architecture for STT-MRAM LLCs With Thermal Consideration.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS,39(4),803-815.
MLA	Wu, Bi,et al."A Novel High Performance and Energy Efficient NUCA Architecture for STT-MRAM LLCs With Thermal Consideration".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 39.4(2020):803-815.