Proactive reconfiguration, a methodology for extending SRAM lifetime

Abstract

The proactive reconfiguration is an emerging technique that enlarges the lifetime of memory systems with embedded SRAM cells. This work introduces a novel version that modifies and enhances the advantages of this technique and furthermore it takes into account the process variability impact on the memory components. Our results show between a 30% and a 45% of system lifetime increase over the existing proactive reconfiguration technique and 1.7X to ~10X improvement to non-proactive reconfiguration one.