Proceedings of the 50th Annual Design Automation Conference 2013
DOI: 10.1145/2463209.2488762
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Towards variation-aware system-level power estimation of DRAMs

Abstract: DRAM vendors provide pessimistic current measures in memory datasheets to account for worst-case impact of process variations and to improve their production yield, leading to unrealistic power consumption estimates. In this paper, we first demonstrate the possible effects of process variations on DRAM performance and power consumption by performing Monte-Carlo simulations on a detailed DRAM cross-section. We then propose a methodology to empirically determine the actual impact for any given DRAM memory by ass… Show more

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“…Table 3 shows the specifications of the selected devices. All devices are made by the same vendor, since this makes it more likely that consistent safety (σ) margins have been applied to the specifications in the data sheet to compensate for variation [28]. This is especially important for the IDD current measures we supply to the power model in Section 4.2, as it makes the evaluation across devices fairer.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Table 3 shows the specifications of the selected devices. All devices are made by the same vendor, since this makes it more likely that consistent safety (σ) margins have been applied to the specifications in the data sheet to compensate for variation [28]. This is especially important for the IDD current measures we supply to the power model in Section 4.2, as it makes the evaluation across devices fairer.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As timing parameters for HMC have yet to be publicly released, we use the information provided in prior work [69,89] to model the latencies. [155,197], Controller open-page policy, cache line interleaving [80,94,98,156,193] We integrate DRAMPower [16], an open-source DRAM power profiling tool, into Ramulator such that it can perform power profiling while Ramulator executes. To isolate the effects of DRAM behavior, we focus on the power consumed by DRAM instead of total system power.…”
Section: :8mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To model accelerator local scratchpads, we build and characterize a variety of SRAM blocks through a commercial memory compiler in the same technology node. LLC power estimates are obtained from CACTI 7 [27], and DRAM power is modeled by DRAMPower [28], with timing and power parameters taken from a commercial LP-DDR4 product datasheet [29].…”
Section: Power and Area Modelingmentioning
confidence: 99%