PROFET: Modeling System Performance and Energy Without Simulating the CPU

The approaching end of DRAM scaling and expansion of emerging memory technologies is motivating a lot of research in future memory systems. Novel memory systems are typically explored by hardware simulators that are slow and often have a simplified or ...

Application performance on novel memory systems is typically estimated using a hardware simulator. The simulation is, however, time consuming, which limits the number of design options that can be explored within a practical length of time. Also, ...

Memory scaling is in jeopardy as charge storage and sensing mechanisms become less reliable for prevalent memory technologies, such as DRAM. In contrast, phase change memory (PCM) storage relies on scalable current and thermal mechanisms. To exploit PCM'...