Computing with Memory for Energy-Efficient Robust Systems

Part I Introduction.- Challenges in Computing for Nanoscale Technologies.- A Survey of Computing Architectures.- Motivation for a Memory-Based Computing Hardware.- Part II Memory Based Computing.- Key Features of Memory-Based Computing.- Overview of Hardware and Software Architectures.- Application of Memory-Based Computing.- Part III Hardware Framework.- A Memory Based Generic Reconfigurable Framework.- MAHA Hardware Architecture.- Part IV Software Framework.- Application Analysis.- Application Mapping to MBC Hardware.- Part V MBC Design Space Exloration.- Design Space Exploration for MBC Based Generic Reconfigurable Computing Framework.- Design Space Exploration for MAHA Framework.- Preferential Memory Design for MBC Frameworks.- PLA Based Application Mapping in MBC.- Part VI Off-Chip Hardware Acceleration Using MBC.- Background and Motivation.- Off-Chip MAHA Using NAND Flash Technology.- Improvement in Energy-Efficiency with Off-Chip MAHA.- Part VII Improving Reliability of Operations in MBC.- Mitigating the Effect of Parametric Failures in MBC Frameworks.- Mitigating the Effect of Runtime-Failures in MBC Frameworks.- Part VIII Summary.