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Write disturbance error (WDE) appears as a serious reliability problem preventing phase-change memory (PCM) from general commercialization, and therefore several studies have been proposed to mitigate WDEs. Verify-and-correction (VnC)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hyokeun Lee , Seungyong Lee , Byeongki Song , Moonsoo Kim , Seokbo Shim , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Hyun Kim

In this paper, we consider modulation codes for practical multilevel flash memory storage systems with cell levels. Instead of maximizing the lifetime of the device [Ajiang-isit07-01, Ajiang-isit07-02, Yaakobi_verdy_siegel_wolf_allerton08,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-13 Fan Zhang , Henry D. Pfister

Computing-in-memory (CIM) has attracted significant attentions in recent years due to its massive parallelism and low power consumption. However, current CIM designs suffer from large area overhead of small CIM macros and bad programmablity…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Shu-Hung Kuo , Tian-Sheuan Chang

An initializable array is an array that supports the read and write operations for any element and the initialization of the entire array. This paper proposes a simple in-place algorithm to implement an initializable array of length $N$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Takashi Katoh , Keisuke Goto

We consider rank modulation codes for flash memories that allow for handling arbitrary charge-drop errors. Unlike classical rank modulation codes used for correcting errors that manifest themselves as swaps of two adjacently ranked…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Farzad Farnoud , Vitaly Skachek , Olgica Milenkovic

We show that for all given $n,t,w \in \{1,2,...\}$ with $n<2^w$, an array of $n$ entries of $w$ bits each can be represented on a word RAM with a word length of $w$ bits in at most $nw+\lceil n(t/(2 w))^t\rceil$ bits of uninitialized memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Torben Hagerup , Frank Kammer

High density Solid State Drives, such as QLC drives, offer increased storage capacity, but a magnitude lower Program and Erase (P/E) cycles, limiting their endurance and hence usability. We present the design and implementation of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Shehbaz Jaffer , Kaveh Mahdaviani , Bianca Schroeder

We realized an organic electrical memory device with a simple structure based on single layer pentacene film embedded between Al and ITO electrodes. The optimization of the thickness and deposition rate of pentacene resulted in a reliable…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-08-11 Shengwei Shi , Junbiao Peng , Jian Lin , Dongge Ma

Program tracing, or mentally simulating a program on concrete inputs, is an important part of general program comprehension. Programs involve many kinds of virtual state that must be held in memory, such as variable/value pairs and a call…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Will Crichton , Maneesh Agrawala , Pat Hanrahan

As dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and other current transistor-based memories approach their scalability limits, the search for alternative storage methods becomes increasingly urgent. Phase-change memory (PCM) emerges as a promising…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mahek Desai , Rowena Quinn , Marjan Asadinia

Flash memory is a non-volatile computer memory comprised of blocks of cells, wherein each cell can take on q different values or levels. While increasing the cell level is easy, reducing the level of a cell can be accomplished only by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-12 Hessam Mahdavifar , Paul H. Siegel , Alexander Vardy , Jack K. Wolf , Eitan Yaakobi

In this paper, a novel modulation scheme called set partition modulation (SPM) is proposed. In this scheme, set partitioning and ordered subsets in the set partitions are used to form codewords. We define different SPM variants and depict a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Ferhat Yarkin , Justin P. Coon

Persistent Memory (PM) is a new storage technology thatbrings high performance, byte addressability, and persistency for a lesser cost than DRAM. Due to cache volatility and store reordering, developers must use explicit instructions (e.g.:…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sebastião Amaro , João Gonçalves , Miguel Matos

This paper presents a practical writing/reading scheme in nonvolatile memories, called balanced modulation, for minimizing the asymmetric component of errors. The main idea is to encode data using a balanced error-correcting code. When…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Hongchao Zhou , Anxiao , Jiang , Jehoshua Bruck

More-versatile memory is strongly desired for end-users to protect their information in the information era. In particular, bit-level switchable memory, from rewritable to read-only function, allows end-users to prevent any important data…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Yu Sheng , Weiyang Wang , Yongcheng Deng , Yang Ji , Houzhi Zheng , Kaiyou Wang

Agent memory systems accumulate experience but currently lack a principled operational metric for memory quality governance -- deciding which memories to trust, suppress, or deprecate as the agent's task distribution shifts. Write-time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Baris Simsek

We study the design of storage-efficient algorithms for emulating atomic shared memory over an asynchronous, distributed message-passing system. Our first algorithm is an atomic single-writer multi-reader algorithm based on a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Marwen Zorgui , Robert Mateescu , Filip Blagojevic , Cyril Guyot , Zhiying Wang

Resistive memories have limited lifetime caused by limited write endurance and highly non-uniform write access patterns. Two main techniques to mitigate endurance-related memory failures are 1) wear-leveling, to evenly distribute the writes…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Leonid Yavits , Lois Orosa , Suyash Mahar , João Dinis Ferreira , Mattan Erez , Ran Ginosar , Onur Mutlu

Racetrack memory is a new technology which utilizes magnetic domains along a nanoscopic wire in order to obtain extremely high storage density. In racetrack memory, each magnetic domain can store a single bit of information, which can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Yeow Meng Chee , Han Mao Kiah , Alexander Vardy , Van Khu Vu , Eitan Yaakobi

Flash memory is well-known for its inherent asymmetry: the flash-cell charge levels are easy to increase but are hard to decrease. In a general rewriting model, the stored data changes its value with certain patterns. The patterns of data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Anxiao , Jiang , Michael Langberg , Moshe Schwartz , Jehoshua Bruck