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Crossbar-Constrained Technology Mapping for ReRAM Based In-Memory Computing
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In-memory computing has gained significant attention due to the potential for dramatic improvement in speed and energy. Redox-based resistive RAMs (ReRAMs), capable of non-volatile storage and logic operations simultaneously have been used for logic-in-memory computing approaches. To this effect, we propose ReRAM based VLIW Architecture for in-Memory comPuting (ReVAMP), supported by a detailed device-accurate simulation setup with peripheral circuitry. We present theoretical bounds on the minimum area required for in-memory computation of arbitrary Boolean functions specified using structural representation (And-Inverter Graph and Majority-Inverter Graph) and two-level representation (Exclusive-Sum-of-Product). To support the ReVAMP architecture, we present two technology mapping flows that fully exploit the bit-level parallelism offered by the execution of logic using ReRAM crossbar array. The area-constrained mapping (ArC) generates feasible mapping for a variety of crossbar dimensions while the delay-constrained mapping (DeC) focuses primarily on minimizing the latency of mapping. We evaluate the proposed mappings against two state-of-the-art technology in-memory computing architectures, PLiM and MAGIC along with their automation flows (SIMPLE and COMPACT). ArC and DeC outperform state-of-the-art PLiM architecture by 1:46x and 4:3x on average in latency. ArC offers significantly lower area (on average 25:27x and 6:57x), while improving the area-delay product by 1:37x and 1:12x against two mapping approaches for MAGIC respectively. In contrast, DeC achieves average area (1:45x and 3:06x) and area-delay product (1:12x and 6:36x) improvements over the mapping approaches for MAGIC architecture respectively. The proposed mapping techniques allow a variety of runtime efficiency trade-offs.
Keywords:
Memristor
ReRAM
memristive systems
logic design
technology mapping
design automation
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