SoftMC: A Flexible and Practical Open-Source Infrastructure for Enabling Experimental DRAM Studies

• Published in: Proceedings - International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture pp. 241 - 252
• Main Authors: Hassan, Hasan, Vijaykumar, Nandita, Khan, Samira, Ghose, Saugata, Chang, Kevin, Pekhimenko, Gennady, Donghyuk Lee, Ergin, Oguz, Mutlu, Onur
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.02.2017
• Subjects: DRAM; DRAM chips; FPGA; Memory Characterization; Open source software; Reliability; Testing; Timing

DRAM is the primary technology used for main memory in modern systems. Unfortunately, as DRAM scales down to smaller technology nodes, it faces key challenges in both data integrity and latency, which strongly affects overall system reliability and performance. To develop reliable and high-performan...