Research on the Billion-Transistor Architecture of Processors
Xuejun Yang · Computer Engineering and Science · 2007
Advances in semiconductor manufacturing will permit an unprecedented number of transistors on a single processor die.But what architecture will make the best use of these riches become a focus.After surveying the research of billion-transistor architectures,we focus on PIM,which integrates the CMOS logic with DRAM memories on the same die,and provide high bandwidth,low latency and low power.PIM makes the best use of giant on-chip budget,but also relaxes the eager memory-wall,power,and wire latency.Coupled with the vector processing logic,PIM can expose the advantages in itself.