NVMain 2.0: A User-Friendly Memory Simulator to Model (Non-) Volatile Memory Systems

作者：Poremba Matthew^*; Zhang Tao; Xie Yuan

来源：IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 2015, 14(2): 140-143.

DOI：10.1109/LCA.2015.2402435

• Memory architecture
• random access memory
• nonvolatile memory
• phase change memory
• SDRAM

In this letter, a flexible memory simulator - NVMain 2.0, is introduced to help the community for modeling not only commodity DRAMs but also emerging memory technologies, such as die-stacked DRAM caches, non-volatile memories (e.g., STT-RAM, PCRAM, and ReRAM) including multi-level cells (MLC), and hybrid non-volatile plus DRAM memory systems. Compared to existing memory simulators, NVMain 2.0 features a flexible user interface with compelling simulation speed and the capability of providing sub-array-level parallelism, fine-grained refresh, MLC and data encoder modeling, and distributed energy profiling.

• 出版日期2015-12