Overcoming the "Memory Wall" by improved system design exploration and a link to process technology options

Abstract

Data transfer and storage issues "take the centre stage" in information and communication systems because of the increasing complexity and data dominance typically associated to them. In this paper, we summarise a systematic methodology for the power critical storage modules such as local SRAMs. We focus on their memory organisation (access schedule and data assignment) together with an exploration of the effect that the interconnect technology may have on the energy consumed by these local memory organisations in deep sub-micron technologies.