DATE 2021 became a virtual conference due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic (click here for more details)

Taking into consideration the continued erratic development of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying restrictions of worldwide travelling as well as the safety and health of the DATE community, the Organizing Committees decided to host DATE 2021 as a virtual conference in early February 2021. Unfortunately, the current situation does not allow a face-to-face conference in Grenoble, France.

The Organizing Committees are working intensively to create a virtual conference that gives as much of a real conference atmosphere as possible.

 
 
 
 

M03 How Emerging Memory Technology Will Reshape Future Computing

Start
Monday, 1 February 2021 07:00
End
Monday, 1 February 2021 11:40
Organizer
Jian-Jia Chen, TU Dortmund University, Germany
Organizer
Hussam Amrouch, University of Stuggart, Germany
Organizer
Joerg Henkel, KIT, Germany
Speaker
Jian-Jia Chen, TU Dortmund University, Germany
Speaker
Hussam Amrouch, University of Stuggart, Germany
Speaker
Yuan-Hao Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Organizers:

  • Jian-Jia Chen, TU Dortmund University
  • Hussam Amrouch, University of Stuttgart
  • Jörg Henkel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Speaker(s):

  • Jian-Jia Chen, TU Dortmund University, Germany
  • Hussam Amrouch, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Yuan-Hao Chang (Johnson Chang), Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Motivation:

  • Due to low leakage power, high density, and low unit cost, emerging byte-addressable NVM architectures are being considered as main memory and storage in the near future.
  • This tutorial is to present and discuss commendable technologies and their impact to outlook potential researches and cooperation.
  • It is unique and timely for the DATE community, since presenters have expertise in both the system/architecture-level side and technology side to draw a vision of novel emerging techniques and their impact across different abstraction layers. 

Goal: The goal of this tutorial is to present and discuss commendable technologies and their impact on emerging byte-addressable non-volatile memories (NVM).

Technical Details:

In this tutorial we will discuss various non-volatile memories. One of them will be Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistor (FeFET), which is a promising non-volatile, area-efficient and low-power combined logic and memory. FeFET is compatible with the existing CMOS fabrication process. We will show how bit-errors induced by FeFETs (due to temperature effects and process variation effects) can be modeled from the device level to system level and then how the impact of such bit-errors can be accurately quantified and mitigated in the context of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs).  Other types of NVMs will be also discussed demonstrating how system-level managements could be impacted. 

Schedule (Time Zone: GMT +1): 

  • 07:00 - 07:10: Opening
  • 07:10 - 08:00: Emerging Devices (ReRam, FeFET, NCFET)
  • 08:00 - 08:05: coffee/breakfast break
  • 08:05 - 08:40: Neural Network Techniques for Systems with NVMs, from CPU Cache, Main Memory and Processing-in-Memory
  • 08:40 - 09:20: Random Forest Training Techniques for Systems with NVMs
  • 09:20 - 09:30: break
  • 09:30 - 10:00: Full system-level NVM simulation and optimization 
  • 10:00 - 10:25: Demo and Q&A
  • 10:25 - 10:30: break
  • 10:30 - 11:00: Vision of Integration of Future Technology

Necessary background: 

  • Computer Architecture