Memristive Non-Volatile Memory Based on Graphene Materials

Non-volatile memory based on nanostructures.

Non-volatile memory technologies: emerging concepts and new materials

The current mainstream, based on the Flash technology, is expected to be the reference technology also for the next few years. Nevertheless Flash has technological and physical constraints that make more difficult their further scaling. In this contest there is the industrial interest for alternative technologies that exploit new materials and concepts to go beyond the Flash technology, to allo...

Chalcogenide-Based Non-Volatile Memory Technology

– Chalcogenide is a proven phase change material used in re-writeable CDs and DVDs. This material changes phases, reversibly and quickly, between an amorphous state that is dull in appearance and electrically high in resistance, and a polycrystalline state that is highly reflective and low in resistance. The application of this commercially proven technology to create dense, high-speed, non-vol...

Non-Volatile Memory Based Cache Replacement Policy

Currently, most computer systems consist of Dynamic RAM (DRAM) as main memory and Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) as storage devices. Due to DRAM’s volatile nature, it suffers from data loss in the event of power failure or system crash. With rapid development of new types of non-volatile memory, it becomes promising that one of these technologies will replace DRAM as main memory in the near future. Co...

Fast Persistent Heap Based on Non-Volatile Memory

New volatile memory (e.g. Phase Change Memroy) presents fast access, large capacity, byte-addressable, and non-volatility features. These features will bring impacts on the design of current software system. It has become a hot research topic of how to manage it and provide what kind of interface for upper application to use it. This paper proposes FP-Heap. FP-Heap supports direct access to non...