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SRAM-based cache memory faces several scalability limitations in deep nanoscale technologies, e.g., high leakage current, low cell stability, and low density. Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies have received lots of attention…

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Dynamic partial reconfiguration enables multi-tenancy in cloud-based FPGAs, which presents security challenges for tenants, IPs, and data. Malicious users can exploit FPGAs for remote side-channel attacks (SCAs), and shared on-chip…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mahya Morid Ahmadi , Faiq Khalid , Radha Vaidya , Florian Kriebel , Andreas Steininger , Muhammad Shafique

Thanks to its superior features of fast read/write speed and low power consumption, spin-torque transfer magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) has become a promising non-volatile memory (NVM) technology that is suitable for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xingwei Zhong , Kui Cai , Zhen Mei , Tony Q. S. Quek

Impact of spin transfer torque (STT) on the write error rate of a voltage-torque-based magnetoresistive random access memory is theoretically analyzed by using the macrospin model. During the voltage pulse the STT assists or suppresses the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-04 Hiroshi Imamura , Rie Matsumoto

Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) is essential for developing agents that can learn, adapt, and accumulate knowledge over time. However, a fundamental challenge persists as agents must strike a delicate balance between plasticity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chengqi Zheng , Haiyan Yin , Jianda Chen , Terence Ng , Yew-Soon Ong , Ivor Tsang

The pivotal storage density win achieved by solid-state devices over magnetic devices in 2015 is a result of multiple innovations in physics, architecture, and signal processing. One of the most important innovations in that regard is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ahmed Hareedy , Simeng Zheng , Paul Siegel , Robert Calderbank

The increased memory demands of workloads is putting high pressure on Last Level Caches (LLCs). Unfortunately, there is limited opportunity to increase the capacity of LLCs due to the area and power requirements of the underlying SRAM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Apostolos Kokolis , Namrata Mantri , Shrikanth Ganapathy , Josep Torrellas , John Kalamatianos

This paper summarizes the idea of Tiered-Latency DRAM, which was published in HPCA 2013. The key goal of TL-DRAM is to provide low DRAM latency at low cost, a critical problem in modern memory systems. To this end, TL-DRAM introduces…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Donghyuk Lee , Yoongu Kim , Vivek Seshadri , Jamie Liu , Lavanya Subramanian , Onur Mutlu

In-memory computing promises to overcome the von Neumann bottleneck in computer systems by performing computations directly within the memory. Previous research has suggested using Spin-Transfer Torque RAM (STT-RAM) for in-memory computing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Dhruv Gajaria , Kevin Antony Gomez , Tosiron Adegbija

Visual language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in image captioning tasks, yet recent studies have found they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Attackers can inject undetectable perturbations into the data during inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shuhan Xu , Siyuan Liang , Hongling Zheng , Aishan Liu , Xinbiao Wang , Yong Luo , Fu Lin , Leszek Rutkowski , Dacheng Tao

Despite recent advancements in packet loss concealment (PLC) using deep learning techniques, packet loss remains a significant challenge in real-time speech communication. Redundancy has been used in the past to recover the missing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Jean-Marc Valin , Jan Büthe , Ahmed Mustafa , Michael Klingbeil

We study the inverse problem of radiative transfer equation (RTE) using stochastic gradient descent method (SGD) in this paper. Mathematically, optical tomography amounts to recovering the optical parameters in RTE using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Ke Chen , Qin Li , Jian-Guo Liu

Spin-transfer-torque random access memory (STT-RAM) is a promising candidate for the next-generation of random-access-memory due to improved scalability, read-write speeds and endurance. However, the write pulse duration must be long enough…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-05-10 Urmimala Roy , Tanmoy Pramanik , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

Whereas contemporary Error Correcting Codes (ECC) designs occupy a significant fraction of total die area in chip-multiprocessors (CMPs), approaches to deal with the vulnerability increase of CMP architecture against Single Event Upsets…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Navid Khoshavi , Armin Samiei

Although read disturbance has emerged as a major reliability concern, managing read disturbance in modern NAND flash memory has not been thoroughly investigated yet. From a device characterization study using real modern NAND flash memory,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Myoungjun Chun , Jaeyong Lee , Inhyuk Choi , Jisung Park , Myungsuk Kim , Jihong Kim

Sparse deep learning has reduced computation significantly, but its irregular non-zero data distribution complicates the data flow and hinders data reuse, increasing on-chip SRAM access and thus power consumption of the chip. This paper…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kai-Chieh Hsu , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge retrieval but faces challenges on edge devices due to high storage, energy, and latency demands. Computing-in-Memory (CIM) offers a…

Cybercriminals are moving towards zero-day attacks affecting resource-constrained devices such as single-board computers (SBC). Assuming that perfect security is unrealistic, Moving Target Defense (MTD) is a promising approach to mitigate…

Memory-unsafe programming languages such as C and C++ are the preferred languages for systems programming, embedded systems, and performance-critical applications. The widespread use of these languages makes the risk of memory-related…

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