There are four flit types: head, data, tail, and token. While message packets can be of arbitrary length, the flit length is 64 bits. In addition, the bufferless router supports the ASW design, and the ASW quickly determines whether the incoming flits are to be transferred or discarded. All multiflit packets in the approx-subnet are approximable, and the discarded flits can be recovered in the destination node. Each of the remaining flits must be injected in one cycle otherwise, the remaining flits will be discarded. When the first flit of a multiflit packet is injected, the timer is turned on. The timer works to limit the injection time of each multiflit packet. This would incur additional complexity in receiving the packets to determine the completion of multiflit packet transfer. Multiflit packet injection could be interrupted by flits from other input ports. In the approx-subnet, the local injection is also controlled by a timer. In addition, ejection buffers are necessary for receiving the arrived packets. Hence, packets in injection ports can be buffered instead of being discarded in allocation conflicts. e The injection and ejection port is equipped with some buffers since the packets in local routers can be injected into the approx-subnet only when their ideal output slot is free. All arriving flits contend for output ports and are forced to be routed out in the next cycle. There are no buffers in any of the four neighbor connections, so incoming flits cannot be stopped. In each neighbor connection, only a latch is used to store an incoming flit from the neighbor direction at any cycle. Each router consists of five input and output ports: one for each of the four cardinal neighbor connections and one for the local connection. 31 shows the architecture of a bufferless router in the approx-subnet. The AMNoC is designed as a 2D mesh topology, which is commonplace in modern systems. Unfortunately, the use of heat spreaders on the RIMMs further increased the cost of the Direct RDRAM memory system, and the new command issue rules further increased controller complexity and decreased available memory bandwidth in the Direct RDRAM memory system. deployed two solutions: heat spreaders and new command issue rules designed to limit access rates to a given Direct RDRAM device. To counter the problem of localized hot spots in Direct RDRAM memory systems, Rambus Corp. The localized hot spots can, in turn, change the electrical characteristics of the transmission lines that Direct RDRAM memory systems rely on to deliver command and data packets, thus threatening the functional correctness of the memory system itself. Consequently, localized hot spots associated with high access rates to a given device can appear and disappear on different sections of the Direct RDRAM channel. Moreover, Figure 12.31 illustrates that in the worst-case memory-access pattern, a sustainable stream of row activation and column access commands can be pipelined to a single device in a given channel of the Direct RDRAM memory system.
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However, the ability of the single Direct RDAM device to provide full bandwidth to the memory channel means that the on-chip and in-system data movements associated with a given command issued by the memory controller are always limited to a single DRAM device. In contrast, the Direct RDRAM memory system is architected for high bandwidth throughput, and a single Direct RDRAM device provides full bandwidth for a given channel of Direct RDRAM devices. Consequently, the on-chip and in-system data movements associated with any given command issued by the memory controller are always distributed across multiple DRAM devices in a single rank and also typically across different ranks in standard 64- or 72-bit-wide SDRAM and DDRx SDRAM memory systems. Moreover, high data rate DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM devices do not contain enough banks in parallel in a single rank configuration to fully saturate the memory channel. In the classical mesh topology of SDRAM and DDRx SDRAM memory systems, multiple DRAM devices are connected in parallel to form a given rank of memory.
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