基於相變化記憶體的嵌入式系統中，一種關注產品保固年限之實體記憶體頁面管理機制

Warranty-Aware Page Management for PCM-Based Embedded Systems

張瑜芬(Yu-Fen Chang)

指導教授 ： 石維寬

國立清華大學/電機資訊學院/資訊系統與應用研究所/碩士(2014年)

https://doi.org/10.6843/NTHU.2014.00144

摘要

隨著消費電子產品和行動裝置的蓬勃發展，嵌入式系統中的能源效率設計成為一個反復出現的議題。相變化記憶體(PCM)被認為極具取代DRAM做為主記憶體的潛力。因其有機會達成顯著的電力節省，可高達60個百分點。然而，在考慮使用PCM做為系統的主記憶時，其可擦寫次數(耐用年限)成為一個關鍵的問題，損耗平衡設計是一種常見的用以解決此問題的方法。現有的損耗均衡策略已有注重運行效率和降低開銷，但其仍以將PCM壽命延至最長為主要目的，為此，我們提出了一種關注產品保固年限之實體記憶體頁面管理機制，其專注於保證PCM頁面在保固年限內不發生損壞，從而可最大地減少管理和運行上的開銷，實驗結果顯示，這個基於冷卻過熱頁面的機制可將管理的開銷減至其他先進設計的三分之一，同時具有相同水平的性能。

關鍵字

相變化記憶體 ； 嵌入式系統 ； 負載平衡 ； 儲存管理

並列摘要

The thriving growth in mobile consumer electronics keeps the energy efficiency in the embedded system design a recurring theme. PCM main memory has shown its potential in replacing DRAM due to the huge amount of energy reduction, e.g. 65%. When considering the usage of PCM main memory, its write endurance becomes a critical issue, and wear leveling design is a common approach to resolve this issue. Even though the wear leveling design should emphasize on the operation efficiency and overhead reduction, existing wear leveling strategies designed for PCM main memory are usually enforced to prolong the lifetime of PCM in best effort. We propose a warranty-aware page management design to mitigate the operation overhead required for managing the endurance issue in PCM. A cooling-based wear leveling is proposed to guarantee that PCM pages will not live less than warranty period. The experiment results showed the cooling-based design reduced the overhead to one third of that of the state-of-the-art designs while having the same level of performance.

並列關鍵字

PCM ； Embedded system ； wear leveling ； Storage Management

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