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Data Processing and Information Classification: An In-Memory Approach

Version 1 : Received: 18 February 2020 / Approved: 20 February 2020 / Online: 20 February 2020 (08:24:48 CET)

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Andrighetti, M.; Turvani, G.; Santoro, G.; Vacca, M.; Marchesin, A.; Ottati, F.; Ruo Roch, M.; Graziano, M.; Zamboni, M. Data Processing and Information Classification—An In-Memory Approach. Sensors 2020, 20, 1681. Andrighetti, M.; Turvani, G.; Santoro, G.; Vacca, M.; Marchesin, A.; Ottati, F.; Ruo Roch, M.; Graziano, M.; Zamboni, M. Data Processing and Information Classification—An In-Memory Approach. Sensors 2020, 20, 1681.

Abstract

To live in the information society means to be surrounded by billions of electronic devices full of sensors that constantly acquire data. This enormous amount of data must be processed and classified. A solution commonly adopted is to send these data to server farms to be remotely elaborated. The drawback is a huge battery drain due to high amount of information that must be exchanged. To compensate this problem data must be processed locally, near the sensor itself. But this solution requires huge computational capabilities. While microprocessors, even mobile ones, nowadays have enough computational power, their performance are severely limited by the Memory Wall problem. Memories are too slow, so microprocessors cannot fetch enough data from them, greatly limiting their performance. A solution is the Processing-In-Memory (PIM) approach. New memories are designed that are able to elaborate data inside them eliminating the Memory Wall problem. In this work we present an example of such system, using as a case of study the Bitmap Indexing algorithm. Such algorithm is used to classify data coming from many sources in parallel. We propose an hardware accelerator designed around the Processing-In-Memory approach, that is capable of implementing this algorithm and that can also be reconfigured to do other tasks or to work as standard memory. The architecture has been synthesized using CMOS technology. The results that we have obtained highlights that, not only it is possible to process and classify huge amount of data locally, but also that it is possible to obtain this result with a very low power consumption.

Keywords

bitmap indexing; processing in memory; memory wall; Big Data; Internet Of Things

Subject

Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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