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10/27/99 ©UCB Fall 1999 CS152 / Kubiatowicz

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CS152Computer Architecture and Engineering

Lecture 17

Finish speculationLocality and Memory Technology

October 27, 1999

John Kubiatowicz (http.cs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron)

lecture slides: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs152/


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Review: Tomasulo Organization

FP addersFP adders

Add1Add2Add3

FP multipliersFP multipliers

Mult1Mult2

From Mem FP Registers

Reservation Stations

Common Data Bus (CDB)

To Mem

FP OpQueue

Load Buffers

Store Buffers

Load1Load2Load3Load4Load5Load6


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Review: Tomasulo Architecture° Reservations stations: renaming to larger set of registers + buffering

source operands• Prevents registers as bottleneck• Avoids WAR, WAW hazards of Scoreboard• Allows loop unrolling in HW

° Not limited to basic blocks (integer units gets ahead, beyond branches)

° Dynamic Scheduling:• Scoreboarding/Tomasulo• In-order issue, out-of-order execution, out-of-order commit

° Branch prediction/speculation• Regularities in program execution permit prediction of branch

directions and data values• Necessary for wide superscalar issue


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Review: Independent “Fetch” unit

Instruction Fetchwith

Branch Prediction

Out-Of-OrderExecution

Unit

Correctness FeedbackOn Branch Results

Stream of InstructionsTo Execute

° Instruction fetch decoupled from execution

° Need mechanism to “undo results” when prediction wrong??? Called “Speculation”


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° Address of branch index to get prediction AND branch address (if taken)• Must check for branch match now, since can’t use wrong branch address

• Grab predicted PC from table since may take several cycles to compute

° Update predicted PC when branch is actually resolved

° Return instruction addresses predicted with stack

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Review: Branch Target Buffer (BTB)


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° Solution: 2-bit scheme where change prediction only if get misprediction twice: (Figure 4.13, p. 264)

° Red: stop, not taken

° Green: go, taken

° Adds hysteresis to decision making process

Review: Better Dynamic Branch Prediction

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BHT Accuracy

° BHT: like branch target buffer• Table indexed by branch PC, with 2-bit counter value

° Mispredict because either:• Wrong guess for that branch

• Got branch history of wrong branch when index the table

° 4096 entry table programs vary from 1% misprediction (nasa7, tomcatv) to 18% (eqntott), with spice at 9% and gcc at 12%

° 4096 about as good as infinite table(in Alpha 211164)


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Correlating Branches° Hypothesis: recent branches are correlated; that is, behavior of

recently executed branches affects prediction of current branch

° Two possibilities; Current branch depends on:• Last m most recently executed branches anywhere in program

Produces a “GA” (for “global address”) in the Yeh and Patt classification (e.g. GAg)

• Last m most recent outcomes of same branch.Produces a “PA” (for “per address”) in same classification (e.g. PAg)

° Idea: record m most recently executed branches as taken or not taken, and use that pattern to select the proper branch history table entry

• A single history table shared by all branches (appends a “g” at end), indexed by history value.

• Address is used along with history to select table entry (appends a “p” at end of classification)


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Correlating Branches

(2,2) GAs predictor• First 2 means that we keep two

bits of history

• Second means that we have 2 bit counters in each slot.

• Then behavior of recent branches selects between, say, four predictions of next branch, updating just that prediction

• Note that the original two-bit counter solution would be a (0,2) GAs predictor

• Note also that aliasing is possible here...

Branch address

2-bits per branch predictors

PredictionPrediction

2-bit global branch history register

° For instance, consider global history, set-indexed BHT. That gives us a GAs history table.

Each slot is2-bit counter


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HW support for More ILP

° Avoid branch prediction by turning branches into conditionally executed instructions:

if (x) then A = B op C else NOP• If false, then neither store result nor cause exception

• Expanded ISA of Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC have conditional move; PA-RISC can annul any following instr.

• EPIC: 64 1-bit condition fields selected so conditional execution

° Drawbacks to conditional instructions• Still takes a clock even if “annulled”

• Stall if condition evaluated late

• Complex conditions reduce effectiveness; condition becomes known late in pipeline


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Now what about exceptions???

° Out-of-order commit really messes up our chance to get precise exceptions!

• When committing results out-of-order, register file contains results from later instructions while earlier ones have not completed yet.

• What if need to cause exception on one of those early instructions??

° Need to be able to “rollback” register file to consistent state

• Remember that “precise” means that there is some PC such that: all instructions before have committed results, and none after have committed results.

° Big problem for branch prediction as well:What if prediction wrong??


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° Speculation is a form of guessing.

° Important for branch prediction:• Need to “take our best shot” at predicting branch direction.

• If we issue multiple instructions per cycle, lose lots of potential instructions otherwise:

- Consider 4 instructions per cycle

- If take single cycle to decide on branch, waste from 4 - 7 instruction slots!

° If we speculate and are wrong, need to back up and restart execution to point at which we predicted incorrectly:

• This is exactly same as precise exceptions!

° Technique for both precise interrupts/exceptions and speculation: in-order completion or commit

Relationship between precise interrupts and specultation:


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HW support for precise interrupts

° Need HW buffer for results of uncommitted instructions: reorder buffer

• 3 fields: instr, destination, value

• Reorder buffer can be operand source => more registers like RS

• Use reorder buffer number instead of reservation station when execution completes

• Supplies operands between execution complete & commit

• Once operand commits, result is put into register

• Instructionscommit

• As a result, its easy to undo speculated instructions on mispredicted branches or on exceptions

ReorderBuffer

FPOp

Queue

FP Adder FP Adder

Res Stations Res Stations

FP Regs


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1. Issue—get instruction from FP Op Queue• If reservation station and reorder buffer slot free, issue instr & send operands

& reorder buffer no. for destination (this stage sometimes called “dispatch”)

2. Execution—operate on operands (EX)• When both operands ready then execute; if not ready, watch CDB for result;

when both in reservation station, execute; checks RAW (sometimes called “issue”)

3. Write result—finish execution (WB)• Write on Common Data Bus to all awaiting FUs & reorder buffer; mark

reservation station available.

4. Commit—update register with reorder result• When instr. at head of reorder buffer & result present, update register with

result (or store to memory) and remove instr from reorder buffer.

• Mispredicted branch or interrupt flushes reorder buffer (sometimes called “graduation”)

Four Steps of Speculative Tomasulo Algorithm


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3 DIVD ROB2,R(F6)3 DIVD ROB2,R(F6)2 ADDD R(F4),ROB12 ADDD R(F4),ROB1

Tomasulo With Reorder buffer:

ToMemory

FP addersFP adders FP multipliersFP multipliers

Reservation Stations

FP OpQueue

ROB7

ROB6

ROB5

ROB5

ROB3

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----

F0F0<val2><val2>

<val2><val2>ST 0(R3),F0ST 0(R3),F0

ADDD F0,F4,F6ADDD F0,F4,F6YY

ExEx

F4F4 M[10]M[10] LD F4,0(R3)LD F4,0(R3) YY

---- BNE F2,<…>BNE F2,<…> NN

F2F2

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DIVD F2,F10,F6DIVD F2,F10,F6

ADDD F10,F4,F0ADDD F10,F4,F0

LD F0,10(R2)LD F0,10(R2)

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DestDest

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from Memory

1 10+R21 10+R2Dest

Reorder Buffer

Registers


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Dynamic Scheduling in PowerPC 604 and Pentium Pro

° Both In-order Issue, Out-of-order execution, In-order Commit

PPro central reservation station for any functional units with one bus shared by a branch and an integer unit


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Dynamic Scheduling in PowerPC 604 and Pentium Pro

Parameter PPC PPro

Max. instructions issued/clock 4 3

Max. instr. complete exec./clock 6 5

Max. instr. commited/clock 6 3

Instructions in reorder buffer 16 40

Number of rename buffers 12 Int/8 FP 40

Number of reservations stations 12 20

No. integer functional units (FUs) 2 2No. floating point FUs 1 1 No. branch FUs 1 1 No. complex integer FUs 1 0No. memory FUs 1 1 load +1 store


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Dynamic Scheduling in Pentium Pro

° PPro doesn’t pipeline 80x86 instructions

° PPro decode unit translates the Intel instructions into 72-bit micro-operations ( MIPS)

° Sends micro-operations to reorder buffer & reservation stations

° Takes 1 clock cycle to determine length of 80x86 instructions + 2 more to create the micro-operations

° Most instructions translate to 1 to 4 micro-operations

° Complex 80x86 instructions are executed by a conventional microprogram (8K x 72 bits) that issues long sequences of micro-operations


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Limits to Multi-Issue Machines

° Inherent limitations of ILP• 1 branch in 5: How to keep a 5-way superscalar busy?

• Latencies of units: many operations must be scheduled

• Need about Pipeline Depth x No. Functional Units of independent instructions to keep fully busy

• Increase ports to Register File

- VLIW example needs 7 read and 3 write for Int. Reg. & 5 read and 3 write for FP reg

• Increase ports to memory

• Current state of the art: Many hardware structures (such as issue/rename logic) has delay proportional to square of number of instructions issued/cycle


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° Conflicting studies of amount• Benchmarks (vectorized Fortran FP vs. integer C programs)

• Hardware sophistication

• Compiler sophistication

° How much ILP is available using existing mechanims with increasing HW budgets?

° Do we need to invent new HW/SW mechanisms to keep on processor performance curve?

• Intel MMX

• Motorola AltaVec

• Supersparc Multimedia ops, etc.

Limits to ILP


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Initial HW Model here; MIPS compilers.

Assumptions for ideal/perfect machine to start:

1. Register renaming–infinite virtual registers and all WAW & WAR hazards are avoided

2. Branch prediction–perfect; no mispredictions

3. Instruction Window–machine with an unbounded buffer of instructions available

4. Memory-address alias analysis–addresses are known & a store can be moved before a load provided addresses not equal

1 cycle latency for all instructions; unlimited number of instructions issued per clock cycle

Limits to ILP


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Integer: 18 - 60

FP: 75 - 150

IPC

Upper Limit to ILP: Ideal Machine


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Perfect Selective predictor Standard 2-bit Static None

Change from Infinite window to examine to 2000 and maximum issue of 64 instructions per clock cycle

ProfileBHT (512)Pick Cor. or BHTPerfect No prediction

FP: 15 - 45

Integer: 6 - 12

IPC

More Realistic HW: Branch Impact


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Infinite 256 128 64 32 None

Change 2000 instr window, 64 instr issue, 8K 2 level Prediction

Integer: 5 - 15

FP: 11 - 45

IPC

More Realistic HW: Register Impact (rename regs)

64 None256Infinite 32128


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Change 2000 instr window, 64 instr issue, 8K 2 level Prediction, 256 renaming registers

FP: 4 - 45(Fortran,no heap)

Integer: 4 - 9

IPC

More Realistic HW: Alias Impact

NoneGlobal/Stack perf;heap conflicts

Perfect Inspec.Assem.


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Perfect disambiguation (HW), 1K Selective Prediction, 16 entry return, 64 registers, issue as many as window

Integer: 6 - 12

FP: 8 - 45

IPC

Realistic HW for ‘9X: Window Impact

64 16256Infinite 32128 8 4


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° 8-scalar IBM Power-2 @ 71.5 MHz (5 stage pipe) vs. 2-scalar Alpha @ 200 MHz (7 stage pipe)

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° Start reading Chapter 7 of your book (Memory Hierarchy)

° Second midterm 2 in 3 weeks (Wed, November 17th)

• Pipelining

- Hazards, branches, forwarding, CPI calculations

- (may include something on dynamic scheduling)

• Memory Hierarchy

• Possibly something on I/O (see where we get in lectures)

• Possibly something on power (Broderson Lecture)

° Solutions for midterm 1 up today (promise!)

Administrative Issues


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° The Five Classic Components of a Computer

° Today’s Topics: • Recap last lecture

• Locality and Memory Hierarchy

• Administrivia

• SRAM Memory Technology

• DRAM Memory Technology

• Memory Organization

The Big Picture: Where are We Now?

Control

Datapath

Memory

Processor

Input

Output


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Technology Trends (from 1st lecture)

DRAM

Year Size Cycle Time

1980 64 Kb 250 ns

1983 256 Kb 220 ns

1986 1 Mb 190 ns

1989 4 Mb 165 ns

1992 16 Mb 145 ns

1995 64 Mb 120 ns

Capacity Speed (latency)

Logic: 2x in 3 years 2x in 3 years

DRAM: 4x in 3 years 2x in 10 years

Disk: 4x in 3 years 2x in 10 years

1000:1! 2:1!


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µProc60%/yr.(2X/1.5yr)

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Processor-DRAM Memory Gap (latency)

Who Cares About the Memory Hierarchy?

“Less’ Law?”


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Today’s Situation: Microprocessor

° Rely on caches to bridge gap

° Microprocessor-DRAM performance gap• time of a full cache miss in instructions executed

1st Alpha (7000): 340 ns/5.0 ns = 68 clks x 2 or 136 instructions

2nd Alpha (8400): 266 ns/3.3 ns = 80 clks x 4 or 320 instructions

3rd Alpha (t.b.d.): 180 ns/1.7 ns =108 clks x 6 or 648 instructions

• 1/2X latency x 3X clock rate x 3X Instr/clock 5X


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Impact on Performance

° Suppose a processor executes at • Clock Rate = 200 MHz (5 ns per cycle)

• CPI = 1.1

• 50% arith/logic, 30% ld/st, 20% control

° Suppose that 10% of memory operations get 50 cycle miss penalty

° CPI = ideal CPI + average stalls per instruction= 1.1(cyc) +( 0.30 (datamops/ins) x 0.10 (miss/datamop) x 50 (cycle/miss) )

= 1.1 cycle + 1.5 cycle = 2. 6

° 58 % of the time the processor is stalled waiting for memory!

° a 1% instruction miss rate would add an additional 0.5 cycles to the CPI!

DataMiss(1.6)49%

Ideal CPI(1.1)35%

Inst Miss(0.5)16%


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The Goal: illusion of large, fast, cheap memory

° Fact: Large memories are slow, fast memories are small

° How do we create a memory that is large, cheap and fast (most of the time)?

• Hierarchy

• Parallelism


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An Expanded View of the Memory System

Control

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Fastest Slowest

Smallest Biggest

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Speed:

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Cost:


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Why hierarchy works

° The Principle of Locality:• Program access a relatively small portion of the address space at

any instant of time.

Address Space0 2^n - 1

Probabilityof reference


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Memory Hierarchy: How Does it Work?

° Temporal Locality (Locality in Time):=> Keep most recently accessed data items closer to the processor

° Spatial Locality (Locality in Space):=> Move blocks consists of contiguous words to the upper levels

Lower LevelMemoryUpper Level

MemoryTo Processor

From ProcessorBlk X

Blk Y


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Memory Hierarchy: Terminology° Hit: data appears in some block in the upper level

(example: Block X) • Hit Rate: the fraction of memory access found in the upper level

• Hit Time: Time to access the upper level which consists of

RAM access time + Time to determine hit/miss

° Miss: data needs to be retrieve from a block in the lower level (Block Y)

• Miss Rate = 1 - (Hit Rate)

• Miss Penalty: Time to replace a block in the upper level +

Time to deliver the block the processor

° Hit Time << Miss PenaltyLower Level

MemoryUpper LevelMemory

To Processor

From ProcessorBlk X

Blk Y


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Memory Hierarchy of a Modern Computer System

° By taking advantage of the principle of locality:• Present the user with as much memory as is available in the

cheapest technology.

• Provide access at the speed offered by the fastest technology.

Control

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Processor

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Speed (ns): 10s 100s

100s GsSize (bytes): Ks Ms

TertiaryStorage(Tape)

10,000,000,000s (10s sec)

Ts


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How is the hierarchy managed?

° Registers <-> Memory• by compiler (programmer?)

° cache <-> memory• by the hardware

° memory <-> disks• by the hardware and operating system (virtual memory)

• by the programmer (files)


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Memory Hierarchy Technology° Random Access:

• “Random” is good: access time is the same for all locations

• DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory

- High density, low power, cheap, slow

- Dynamic: need to be “refreshed” regularly

• SRAM: Static Random Access Memory

- Low density, high power, expensive, fast

- Static: content will last “forever”(until lose power)

° “Non-so-random” Access Technology:• Access time varies from location to location and from time to time

• Examples: Disk, CDROM

° Sequential Access Technology: access time linear in location (e.g.,Tape)

° The next two lectures will concentrate on random access technology• The Main Memory: DRAMs + Caches: SRAMs


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Main Memory Background

° Performance of Main Memory: • Latency: Cache Miss Penalty

- Access Time: time between request and word arrives

- Cycle Time: time between requests

• Bandwidth: I/O & Large Block Miss Penalty (L2)

° Main Memory is DRAM : Dynamic Random Access Memory• Dynamic since needs to be refreshed periodically (8 ms)

• Addresses divided into 2 halves (Memory as a 2D matrix):

- RAS or Row Access Strobe

- CAS or Column Access Strobe

° Cache uses SRAM : Static Random Access Memory• No refresh (6 transistors/bit vs. 1 transistor)

Size: DRAM/SRAM 4-8 Cost/Cycle time: SRAM/DRAM 8-16


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Random Access Memory (RAM) Technology

° Why do computer designers need to know about RAM technology?

• Processor performance is usually limited by memory bandwidth

• As IC densities increase, lots of memory will fit on processor chip

- Tailor on-chip memory to specific needs

- Instruction cache

- Data cache

- Write buffer

° What makes RAM different from a bunch of flip-flops?• Density: RAM is much denser


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Static RAM Cell

6-Transistor SRAM Cell

bit bit

word(row select)

bit bit

word

° Write:1. Drive bit lines (bit=1, bit=0)

2.. Select row

° Read:1. Precharge bit and bit to Vdd or Vdd/2 => make sure equal!

2.. Select row

3. Cell pulls one line low

4. Sense amp on column detects difference between bit and bit

replaced with pullupto save area

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Typical SRAM Organization: 16-word x 4-bit

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

SRAMCell

- +Sense Amp - +Sense Amp - +Sense Amp - +Sense Amp

: : : :

Word 0

Word 1

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Dout 0Dout 1Dout 2Dout 3

- +Wr Driver &Precharger - +

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° Write Enable is usually active low (WE_L)

° Din and Dout are combined to save pins:• A new control signal, output enable (OE_L) is needed

• WE_L is asserted (Low), OE_L is disasserted (High)

- D serves as the data input pin

• WE_L is disasserted (High), OE_L is asserted (Low)

- D is the data output pin

• Both WE_L and OE_L are asserted:

- Result is unknown. Don’t do that!!!

° Although could change VHDL to do what desire, must do the best with what you’ve got (vs. what you need)

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Logic Diagram of a Typical SRAM


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Typical SRAM Timing

Write Timing:

D

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WE_L

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Problems with SRAM

° Six transistors use up a lot of area

° Consider a “Zero” is stored in the cell:• Transistor N1 will try to pull “bit” to 0

• Transistor P2 will try to pull “bit bar” to 1

° But bit lines are precharged to high: Are P1 and P2 necessary?

bit = 1 bit = 0

Select = 1

On Off

Off On

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1-Transistor Memory Cell (DRAM)

° Write:• 1. Drive bit line

• 2.. Select row

° Read:• 1. Precharge bit line to Vdd

• 2.. Select row

• 3. Cell and bit line share charges

- Very small voltage changes on the bit line

• 4. Sense (fancy sense amp)

- Can detect changes of ~1 million electrons

• 5. Write: restore the value

° Refresh• 1. Just do a dummy read to every cell.

row select

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Classical DRAM Organization (square)

row

decoder

rowaddress

Column Selector & I/O Circuits Column

Address

data

RAM Cell Array

word (row) select

bit (data) lines

° Row and Column Address together:

• Select 1 bit a time

Each intersection representsa 1-T DRAM Cell


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DRAM logical organization (4 Mbit)

° Square root of bits per RAS/CAS

Column Decoder

Sense Amps & I/O

Memory Array(2,048 x 2,048)

A0…A10

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Block Row Dec.

9 : 512

RowBlock

Row Dec.9 : 512

Column Address

… BlockRow Dec.

9 : 512

BlockRow Dec.

9 : 512

…

Block 0 Block 3…

I/OI/O

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8 I/Os

DRAM physical organization (4 Mbit)


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DRAM2^n x 1chip

DRAMController

address

MemoryTimingController Bus Drivers

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Tc = Tcycle + Tcontroller + Tdriver

Memory Systems


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AD

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256K x 8DRAM9 8

WE_L

° Control Signals (RAS_L, CAS_L, WE_L, OE_L) are all active low

° Din and Dout are combined (D):• WE_L is asserted (Low), OE_L is disasserted (High)

- D serves as the data input pin

• WE_L is disasserted (High), OE_L is asserted (Low)

- D is the data output pin

° Row and column addresses share the same pins (A)• RAS_L goes low: Pins A are latched in as row address

• CAS_L goes low: Pins A are latched in as column address

• RAS/CAS edge-sensitive

CAS_LRAS_L

Logic Diagram of a Typical DRAM


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° tRAC: minimum time from RAS line falling to the valid data output.

• Quoted as the speed of a DRAM

• A fast 4Mb DRAM tRAC = 60 ns

° tRC: minimum time from the start of one row access to the start of the next.

• tRC = 110 ns for a 4Mbit DRAM with a tRAC of 60 ns

° tCAC: minimum time from CAS line falling to valid data output.

• 15 ns for a 4Mbit DRAM with a tRAC of 60 ns

° tPC: minimum time from the start of one column access to the start of the next.

• 35 ns for a 4Mbit DRAM with a tRAC of 60 ns

Key DRAM Timing Parameters


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° A 60 ns (tRAC) DRAM can • perform a row access only every 110 ns (tRC)

• perform column access (tCAC) in 15 ns, but time between column accesses is at least 35 ns (tPC).

- In practice, external address delays and turning around buses make it 40 to 50 ns

° These times do not include the time to drive the addresses off the microprocessor nor the memory controller overhead.

• Drive parallel DRAMs, external memory controller, bus to turn around, SIMM module, pins…

• 180 ns to 250 ns latency from processor to memory is good for a “60 ns” (tRAC) DRAM

DRAM Performance


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AD

OE_L

256K x 8DRAM9 8

WE_LCAS_LRAS_L

WE_L

A Row Address

OE_L

Junk

WR Access Time WR Access Time

CAS_L

RAS_L

Col Address Row Address JunkCol Address

D Junk JunkData In Data In Junk

DRAM WR Cycle Time

Early Wr Cycle: WE_L asserted before CAS_L Late Wr Cycle: WE_L asserted after CAS_L

° Every DRAM access begins at:

• The assertion of the RAS_L

• 2 ways to write: early or late v. CAS

DRAM Write Timing


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AD

OE_L

256K x 8DRAM9 8

WE_LCAS_LRAS_L

OE_L

A Row Address

WE_L

Junk

Read AccessTime

Output EnableDelay

CAS_L

RAS_L


D High Z Data Out

DRAM Read Cycle Time

Early Read Cycle: OE_L asserted before CAS_L Late Read Cycle: OE_L asserted after CAS_L

° Every DRAM access begins at:

• The assertion of the RAS_L

• 2 ways to read: early or late v. CAS

Junk Data Out High Z

DRAM Read Timing


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° Simple: • CPU, Cache, Bus, Memory

same width (32 bits)

° Interleaved: • CPU, Cache, Bus 1 word:

Memory N Modules(4 Modules); example is word interleaved

° Wide: • CPU/Mux 1 word;

Mux/Cache, Bus, Memory N words (Alpha: 64 bits & 256 bits)

Main Memory Performance


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° DRAM (Read/Write) Cycle Time >> DRAM (Read/Write) Access Time

• 2:1; why?

° DRAM (Read/Write) Cycle Time :• How frequent can you initiate an access?

• Analogy: A little kid can only ask his father for money on Saturday

° DRAM (Read/Write) Access Time:• How quickly will you get what you want once you initiate an access?

• Analogy: As soon as he asks, his father will give him the money

° DRAM Bandwidth Limitation analogy:• What happens if he runs out of money on Wednesday?

TimeAccess Time

Cycle Time



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Access Pattern without Interleaving:

Start Access for D1

CPU Memory

Start Access for D2

D1 available

Access Pattern with 4-way Interleaving:

Acc

ess

Ban

k 0

Access Bank 1

Access Bank 2

Access Bank 3

We can Access Bank 0 again

CPU

MemoryBank 1

MemoryBank 0

MemoryBank 3

MemoryBank 2

Increasing Bandwidth - Interleaving


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° Timing model• 1 to send address,

• 4 for access time, 10 cycle time, 1 to send data

• Cache Block is 4 words

° Simple M.P. = 4 x (1+10+1) = 48° Wide M.P. = 1 + 10 + 1 = 12° Interleaved M.P. = 1+10+1 + 3 =15

address

Bank 0

048

12

address

Bank 1

159

13

address

Bank 2

26

1014

address

Bank 3

37

1115



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° How many banks?number banks number clocks to access word in bank

• For sequential accesses, otherwise will return to original bank before it has next word ready

° Increasing DRAM => fewer chips => harder to have banks

• Growth bits/chip DRAM : 50%-60%/yr

• Nathan Myrvold M/S: mature software growth (33%/yr for NT) growth MB/$ of DRAM (25%-30%/yr)

Independent Memory Banks


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Fewer DRAMs/System over TimeM

inim

um

PC

Mem

ory

Siz

e

DRAM Generation‘86 ‘89 ‘92 ‘96 ‘99 ‘02 1 Mb 4 Mb 16 Mb 64 Mb 256 Mb 1 Gb

4 MB

8 MB

16 MB

32 MB

64 MB

128 MB

256 MB

32 8

16 4

8 2

4 1

8 2

4 1

8 2

Memory per System growth@ 25%-30% / year

Memory per DRAM growth@ 60% / year

(from PeteMacWilliams, Intel)


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Page Mode DRAM: Motivation

° Regular DRAM Organization:• N rows x N column x M-bit

• Read & Write M-bit at a time

• Each M-bit access requiresa RAS / CAS cycle

° Fast Page Mode DRAM• N x M “register” to save a row

A Row Address Junk

CAS_L

RAS_L


1st M-bit Access 2nd M-bit Access

N r

ows

N cols

DRAM

M bits

RowAddress

ColumnAddress

M-bit Output


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Fast Page Mode Operation

° Fast Page Mode DRAM• N x M “SRAM” to save a row

° After a row is read into the register

• Only CAS is needed to access other M-bit blocks on that row

• RAS_L remains asserted while CAS_L is toggled

A Row Address

CAS_L

RAS_L

Col Address Col Address

1st M-bit Access

N r

ows

N cols

DRAM

ColumnAddress

M-bit OutputM bits

N x M “SRAM”

RowAddress

Col Address Col Address

2nd M-bit 3rd M-bit 4th M-bit


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Standards pinout, package, binary compatibility,refresh rate, IEEE 754, I/O buscapacity, ...

Sources Multiple Single

Figures 1) capacity, 1a) $/bit 1) SPEC speedof Merit 2) BW, 3) latency 2) cost

Improve 1) 60%, 1a) 25%, 1) 60%, Rate/year 2) 20%, 3) 7% 2) little change

DRAM v. Desktop Microprocessors Cultures


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° Reduce cell size 2.5, increase die size 1.5

° Sell 10% of a single DRAM generation• 6.25 billion DRAMs sold in 1996

° 3 phases: engineering samples, first customer ship(FCS), mass production

• Fastest to FCS, mass production wins share

° Die size, testing time, yield => profit• Yield >> 60%

(redundant rows/columns to repair flaws)

DRAM Design Goals


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° DRAMs: capacity +60%/yr, cost –30%/yr• 2.5X cells/area, 1.5X die size in 3 years

° ‘97 DRAM fab line costs $1B to $2B• DRAM only: density, leakage v. speed

° Rely on increasing no. of computers & memory per computer (60% market)

• SIMM or DIMM is replaceable unit => computers use any generation DRAM

° Commodity, second source industry => high volume, low profit, conservative

• Little organization innovation in 20 years page mode, EDO, Synch DRAM

° Order of importance: 1) Cost/bit 1a) Capacity• RAMBUS: 10X BW, +30% cost => little impact

DRAM History


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° Commodity, second source industry high volume, low profit, conservative

• Little organization innovation (vs. processors) in 20 years: page mode, EDO, Synch DRAM

° DRAM industry at a crossroads:• Fewer DRAMs per computer over time

- Growth bits/chip DRAM : 50%-60%/yr

- Nathan Myrvold M/S: mature software growth (33%/yr for NT) growth MB/$ of DRAM (25%-30%/yr)

• Starting to question buying larger DRAMs?

Today’s Situation: DRAM


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DRAM Revenue per Quarter

$0

$5,000

$10,000

$15,000

$20,000

1Q94

2Q94

3Q94

4Q94

1Q95

2Q95

3Q95

4Q95

1Q96

2Q96

3Q96

4Q96

1Q97

(Miil

lion

s)

$16B

$7B

• Intel: 30%/year since 1987; 1/3 income profit

Today’s Situation: DRAM


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° Two Different Types of Locality:• Temporal Locality (Locality in Time): If an item is referenced, it will

tend to be referenced again soon.

• Spatial Locality (Locality in Space): If an item is referenced, items whose addresses are close by tend to be referenced soon.

° By taking advantage of the principle of locality:• Present the user with as much memory as is available in the

cheapest technology.

• Provide access at the speed offered by the fastest technology.

° DRAM is slow but cheap and dense:• Good choice for presenting the user with a BIG memory system

° SRAM is fast but expensive and not very dense:• Good choice for providing the user FAST access time.

Summary:


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Processor % Area %Transistors

( cost) ( power)

° Alpha 21164 37% 77%

° StrongArm SA110 61% 94%

° Pentium Pro 64% 88%• 2 dies per package: Proc/I$/D$ + L2$

° Caches have no inherent value, only try to close performance gap

Summary: Processor-Memory Performance Gap “Tax”

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