Software Engineers Leverage DRAM Chips For In-Memory Computation
Researchers discover that commercial DRAM chips can perform a full set of basic logic operations, including NOT, NAND, NOR, AND, and OR, with high reliability, paving the way for in-memory processing and potential energy efficiency improvements.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Functionally-Complete Boolean Logic in Real DRAM Chips: Experimental Characterization and Analysis. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should subscribe to the AImodels.fyi newsletter or follow me on Twitter. Overview Introduces an emerging paradigm called "Processing-using-DRAM" (PuD) that leverages the analog properties of DRAM circuitry for massively parallel in-DRAM computation Demonstrates that commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) DRAM chips can perform a functionally complete set of Boolean operations, including...