A Case for Intelligent RAM: IRAM
@inproceedings{Patterson1997ACF,
title={A Case for Intelligent RAM: IRAM},
author={David A. Patterson and Thomas E. Anderson and Neal Cardwell and Richard Fromm and K. Keeton and Christoforos E. Kozyrakis and R. Thomas and Katherine A. Yelick},
year={1997}
}Two trends call into question the current practice of microprocessors and DRAMs being fabricated as different chips on different fab lines: 1) the gap between processor and DRAM speed is growing at 50% per year; and 2) the size and organization of memory on a single DRAM chip is becoming awkward to use in a system, yet size is growing at 60% per year. Intelligent RAM, or IRAM, merges processing and memory into a single chip to lower memory latency, increase memory bandwidth, and improve energy…
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