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ECC-Based Bit-Write Reduction Code Generation for Non-Volatile Memory

Masashi TAWADA, Shinji KIMURA, Masao YANAGISAWA, Nozomu TOGAWA

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Non-volatile memory has many advantages such as high density and low leakage power but it consumes larger writing energy than SRAM. It is quite necessary to reduce writing energy in non-volatile memory design. In this paper, we propose write-reduction codes based on error correcting codes and reduce writing energy in non-volatile memory by decreasing the number of writing bits. When a data is written into a memory cell, we do not write it directly but encode it into a codeword. In our write-reduction codes, every data corresponds to an information vector in an error-correcting code and an information vector corresponds not to a single codeword but a set of write-reduction codewords. Given a writing data and current memory bits, we can deterministically select a particular write-reduction codeword corresponding to the data to be written, where the maximum number of flipped bits are theoretically minimized. Then the number of writing bits into memory cells will also be minimized. Experimental results demonstrate that we have achieved writing-bits reduction by an average of 51% and energy reduction by an average of 33% compared to non-encoded memory.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E98-A No.12 pp.2494-2504
Publication Date
2015/12/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E98.A.2494
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category
High-Level Synthesis and System-Level Design

Authors

Masashi TAWADA
  Waseda University
Shinji KIMURA
  Waseda University
Masao YANAGISAWA
  Waseda University
Nozomu TOGAWA
  Waseda University

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