Non Volatile Operators Emulation Platform.

The Von-Neumann bottleneck is one of the biggest problem to achieve higher computing performances and energy efficiency, especially in data centric applications. One of these application, the Internet of Things (IoT), is expanding at an impressive pace and is relying massively on sensors with limited energy to work. The emergence of new CMOS compatible technologies like ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET) allows to design new kind of Logic-in-Memory (LiM) operators. These non-volatile operators are expected to help overcoming the Von-Neumann Bottleneck as it will retain information thanks to the non volatility of the FeFET. The amount of data transfer will decrease thanks to this particularity. However, design of new computing operators is a long process. It is important to know if these operators are interesting to pursue into further development, which is why they need to be evaluated. To this extent, we present in this article a Non-volatile Operators Emulation Platform. the platform is based on the COMET RISC-V processor and use emulation to evaluate the impact of new non-volatile memories based operator on the processor performances in terms of number of instruction.