1. NAND-like SOT-MRAM-based Approximate Storage for Error-Tolerant Applications
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Wang, Min, Hou, Zhengyi, Wang, Chenyi, Yan, Zhengjie, Li, Shixing, Du, Ao, Cai, Wenlong, Li, Jinhao, Zhang, Hongchao, Cao, Kaihua, Shi, Kewen, Wang, Bi, Zhao, Yuanfu, Xiang, Qingyi, Wang, Zhaohao, and Zhao, Weisheng
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Physics - Applied Physics - Abstract
We demonstrate approximate storage based on NAND-like spin-orbit torque (SOT) MRAM, through "device-modeling-architecture" explorations. We experimentally achieve down to 1E-5 level selectivity. Selectivity and low-power solutions are established by numerical calculation workflow. System-level power consumption is evaluated in the 512 KB last-level cache according to 5 quality levels. Error-tolerant applications, such as image processing, alleviate the demand for selectivity down to the 5E-2 level, leading to 54% ~ 61% energy-saving. Our proposal paves the novel and suitable path for high-density and low-power NAND-like SOT-MRAM.
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- 2024