Efficient In-Memory Processing Using Spintronics

Abstract

As the overhead of data retrieval becomes forbidding, bringing processor logic to the memory where the data reside becomes more energy-efficient. While traditional CMOS structures are unsuited to the tight integration of logic and memory, emerging spintronic technologies show remarkable versatility. This paper introduces a novel spintronics-based processing-in-memory (PIM) framework called computational RAM (CRAM) to solve data-intensive computing problems.