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Duncan G. Elliott, W. Martin Snelgrove, and Michael Stumm,
"Computational RAM: A Memory-SIMD hybrid and its application to DSP",
In Proceedings of the IEEE 1992 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, Boston, MA, USA, IEEE, Washington, DC, USA, May, 1992, pp. 30.6.1– 30.6.4.

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Abstract:

Computational RAM (C-RAM) is conventional RAM with SIMD processors added to the sense amplifiers. These bit-serial, externally programmed processors add only a small amount of area to the chip and in a 32Mbyte memory have an aggregate performance of 13 billion 32-bit operations per second. The chips are extedible and completely software programmable. In this paper we descrive (1) the C-RAM architecture, (2) a working 8Kbit prototype, (3) a full scale C-RAM designed ina 4 MBit DRAM process, and (4) C-RAM applications.

Keywords:

Computer architecture, memory architecture, memory system, computational RAM, SIMD processors

Reference Info:

DOI: 10.1109/CICC.1992.591879
ISBN: 0-7803-0246-X

BibTeX:

@inproceedings(Elliott-CICC92,
    author = {Duncan G. Elliott and W. Martin Snelgrove and Michael Stumm},
    title = {Computational {RAM}: A Memory-{SIMD} hybrid and its application to {DSP}},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE 1992 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference},
    location = {Boston, MA, USA},
    organization = {IEEE},
    address = {Washington, DC, USA},
    month = {May},
    year = {1992},
    pages = {30.6.1- 30.6.4},
    doi = {10.1109/CICC.1992.591879},
    isbn = {0-7803-0246-X},
    keywords = {Computer architecture, memory architecture, memory system, computational RAM, SIMD processors}
)