Smart Memories report,ppt

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A Smart Memories tile consists of a re-configurable memory system; a crossbar interconnection network; a processor core; and a quad network interface. To balance computation, communication, and storage, we allocated equal portions of the tile to the processor, interconnect, and memory

Memory System

The memory system is of growing importance in processor design. Different applications have different memory access patterns and thus require different memory configurations to optimize performance. Often these different memory structures require different control logic and status bits. Therefore, a memory system that can be configured to closely match the application demands is desirable. A recent study of SRAM design shows that the optimal block size for building large SRAMs is small, around a few KB. Large SRAMs are then made up of many of these smaller SRAM blocks. We leverage this naturally hierarchical design to provide low overhead re-configurability. The basic memory mat size of 8KB is chosen based on a study of decoder and I/O overheads and an architectural study of the smallest memory granularity needed.

Allocating a third of the tile area to memory allows for 16 independent 8KB memory mats, a total of 128KB per tile. Each mat is a 1024x64b logical memory array that can perform reads, writes, compares, and read-modify-writes. All operations are bytemaskable. In addition to the memory array, there is configurable logic in the address and data paths. In the address path, the mats take in a 10-bit address and a 4-bit opcode to determine what operation is to be performed. The opcode is decoded using a reconfigurable logic block that is set up during the hardware configuration. The memory address decoder can use the address input directly or can be set in auto-increment/decrement streaming mode. In this mode, the mat stores the starting index, stream count, and stride

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