2008 Reports

Memory Issues in PRET Machines

Shah, Nishant R.

In a processor design the premier issues with memory are (1) main memory allocation and (2) interprocess communication. These two mainly affect the performance of the memory system. The goal of this paper is to formulate a deterministic model for memory systems of PRET, taking into account all the intertwined parallelism of modern memory chips. Studying existing memory models is necessary to understand the implications of these factors to realize a perfectly time predictable memory system.