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Foil 20 Processing In Memory (PIM): Reclaiming the Bandwidth

From Processing-In-Memory (PIM) Architectures for Very High Performance MPP Computing PAWS 96 Mandalay Beach -- April 21-26 1996. by Peter Kogge Notre Dame


Place processing logic on the memory chip
Use logic to consume memory bandwidth directly
  • Utilize row buffers directly
  • Avoid need for off-chip resources
Utilize newly "liberated" chip contacts
  • To communicate directly with other PIMs
  • To interface directly with sensors and I/O



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