Emerging non-volatile memories: opportunities and challenges

  • Authors:
  • Chun Jason Xue;Youtao Zhang;Yiran Chen;Guangyu Sun;J. Jianhua Yang;Hai Li

  • Affiliations:
  • City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, USA;Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

  • Venue:
  • CODES+ISSS '11 Proceedings of the seventh IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In recent years, non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies have emerged as candidates for future universal memory. NVMs generally have advantages such as low leakage power, high density, and fast read spead. At the same time, NVMs also have disadvantages. For example, NVMs often have asymetric read and write speed and energy cost, which poses new challenges when applying NVMs. This paper contains a collection of four contributions, presenting basic introduction on three emerging NVM technologies, their unique characteristics, potential challenges, and new opportunities that they may bring forward in memory systems.