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Speaker:

Prof. Yuan Xie, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Title:

Memory That Never Forgets: Exploring Nonvolatility of Emerging Memory Technologies for Architecture Design

Abstract:

By combining the speed of SRAM, the density of DRAM, and the non-volatility of FLASH memory, emerging NVM technologies have a great potential to be the universal memories of the future. Most of the existing research on NVM architecture research focus on the performance/power/density benefits and how to overcome challenges such as write overhead and wearout issues. The nonvolatile characteristics of such emerging memory technologies are not fully explored in prior study. In this talk, we propose to focus on how to exploit the nonvolatile features that distinguish the emerging memory technologies from traditional SRAM/DRAM technology, and investigate new memory architecture design with novel applications, such as checkpointing, persistent memory, and nonvolatile processor designs for energy harvesting applications.

Bio:

Yuan Xie received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is now a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. Before joining UCSB in Fall 2014, he has worked for IBM and AMD, and has been with Penn State university from 2003 to 2014. His research interests include 3D ICs, memory architecture, and reliable system designs. He was recently elevated to IEEE Fellow due to his contributions in design automation and architecture for 3D ICs.



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