Theoretical analysis and comparison of memory copy accelerators

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Theoretical analysis and comparison of memory copy accelerators

Shizhe Shen 1*
  • 1 Shanghai University    
  • *corresponding author shenbaby_2002@shu.edu.cn
Published on 25 September 2023 | https://doi.org/10.54254/2755-2721/9/20230115
ACE Vol.9
ISSN (Print): 2755-273X
ISSN (Online): 2755-2721
ISBN (Print): 978-1-83558-007-3
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Abstract

Over the last few years, more and more compute-intensive and memory-intensive applications have occurred. These applications are not able to be realized without the base of strong computing and high memory performance. The former has been developed successfully and outstrips the latter to certain degrees. So, researchers must overcome the shortcomings of memory copy performance to catch up with the standard of computing ability so that the systematic applications can be improved. This paper introduces two solutions for memory copy accelerators and analyses their advantages and disadvantages. It also presents an innovative floating window model to replace the channel tags model so as to boost efficiency. With these above-mentioned key components, a comprehensive system is developed, which is a cost-effective and error-resistant improvement of the conventional memory copy accelerators. The new improved memory copy accelerator can be a substitute for the present ones and give a foresee of the future of memory copy solutions.

Keywords:

memory copy, DMA, Cache-Based, sliding window.

Shen,S. (2023). Theoretical analysis and comparison of memory copy accelerators. Applied and Computational Engineering,9,295-302.
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Shen,S. (2023). Theoretical analysis and comparison of memory copy accelerators. Applied and Computational Engineering,9,295-302.

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References

[1]. S. Wong, F. Duarte and S. Vassiliadis, "A hardware cache memcpy accelerator," 2006 IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006, pp. 141-148.

[2]. T. Kalkhof and A. Koch, "Direct Device-to-Device Physical Page Migrations in Multi-FPGA Shared Virtual Memory Systems," 2022 32nd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Belfast, United Kingdom, 2022, pp. 225-234.

[3]. "ISO/IEC/IEEE International Standard for Information technology--Microprocessor systems--Control and Status Registers (CSR) Architecture for microcomputer buses," in ISO/IEC 13213: 1994, vol., no., pp.1-144, 5 Oct. 1994.

[4]. B. Zeng, “What is Direct Memory Access (DMA)? - Definition from WhatIs.com,” WhatIs.com, 2022. https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/Direct-Memory-Access-DMA

[5]. W. Su, L. Wang, M. Su and S. Liu, "A Processor-DMA-Based Memory Copy Hardware Accelerator," 2011 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, Dalian, China, 2011, pp. 225-229.

[6]. F. Duarte and S. Wong, "Cache-Based Memory Copy Hardware Accelerator for Multicore Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 1494-1507, Nov. 2010.

[7]. S. Vassiliadis, F. Duarte and S. Wong, "A Load/Store Unit for a Memcpy Hardware Accelerator," 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007, pp. 537-541.

[8]. U. S. Solangi, M. Ibtesam, M. A. Ansari, J. Kim, and S. Park, “Test Architecture for Systolic Array of Edge-Based AI Accelerator,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 96700–96710, 2021.

[9]. F. Duarte and S. Wong, "A memcpy Hardware Accelerator Solution for Non Cache-line Aligned Copies," 2007 IEEE International Conf. on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2007, pp. 397-402.

[10]. W. Muła and D. Lemire, “Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy,” Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 89–97, Nov. 2019.