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The rapid growth of AI applications has driven increased demand for specialized AI hardware, highlighting critical opportunities within the memory subsystem, which often serves as a performance bottleneck in high-demand workloads such as…

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The initial location of data in DRAMs is determined and controlled by the 'address-mapping' and even modern memory controllers use a fixed and run-time-agnostic address mapping. On the other hand, the memory access pattern seen at the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Mohsen Ghasempour , Jim Garside , Aamer Jaleel , Mikel Luján

With lowering thresholds, transparently defending against Rowhammer within DRAM is challenging due to the lack of time to perform mitigation. Commercially deployed in-DRAM defenses like TRR that steal time from normal refreshes~(REF) to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Hritvik Taneja , Moinuddin Qureshi

In the current high-performance and embedded computing era, full-stack energy-centric design is paramount. Use cases require increasingly high performance at an affordable power budget, often under real-time constraints. Extreme…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Sergio Mazzola , Gabriele Ara , Thomas Benz , Björn Forsberg , Tommaso Cucinotta , Luca Benini

Existing power modelling research focuses not on the method used for developing models but rather on the model itself. This paper aims to develop a method for deploying power models on emerging processors that will be used, for example, in…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Kai Chen , Blesson Varghese , Peter Kilpatrick , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

The emergence of high-density byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) is promising to accelerate data- and compute-intensive applications. Current NVM technologies have lower performance than DRAM and, thus, are often paired with DRAM in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Ivy Peng , Kai Wu , Jie Ren , Dong Li , Maya Gokhale

We study a sequential mechanism design problem in which a principal seeks to elicit truthful reports from multiple rational agents while starting with no prior knowledge of agents' beliefs. We introduce Distributionally Robust Adaptive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qiushi Han , David Simchi-Levi , Renfei Tan , Zishuo Zhao

We can use a hybrid memory system consisting of DRAM and Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (We call it DCPM in this paper) as DCPM is now commercially available since April 2019. Even if the latency for DCPM is several times higher than…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Kazuichi Oe

On-device learning allows AI models to adapt to user data, thereby enhancing service quality on edge platforms. However, training AI on resource-limited devices poses significant challenges due to the demanding computing workload and the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sai Qian Zhang , Thierry Tambe , Nestor Cuevas , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

For neuromorphic engineering to emulate the human brain, improving memory density with low power consumption is an indispensable but challenging goal. In this regard, emerging RRAMs have attracted considerable interest for their unique…

Privacy-preserving computation techniques like homomorphic encryption (HE) and secure multi-party computation (SMPC) enhance data security by enabling processing on encrypted data. However, the significant computational and CPU-DRAM data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Mpoki Mwaisela

The aggressive scaling of technology may have helped to meet the growing demand for higher memory capacity and density, but has also made DRAM cells more prone to errors. Such a reality triggered a lot of interest in modeling DRAM behavior…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Lev Mukhanov , Konstantinos Tovletoglou , Hans Vandierendonck , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos , Georgios Karakonstantis

This paper summarizes the idea of Adaptive-Latency DRAM (AL-DRAM), which was published in HPCA 2015, and examines the work's significance and future potential. AL-DRAM is a mechanism that optimizes DRAM latency based on the DRAM module and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Donghyuk Lee , Yoongu Kim , Gennady Pekhimenko , Samira Khan , Vivek Seshadri , Kevin Chang , Onur Mutlu

Time-based dynamic models of cascading failures have been recognized as one of the most comprehensive methods of representing detailed cascading information and are often used for benchmarking and validation. This paper provides an overview…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Yitian Dai , Robin Preece , Mathaios Panteli

FPGAs are increasingly utilized in data centers due to their capacity to exploit data parallelism in computationally intensive workloads. Furthermore, the processing of modern data center workloads requires moving vast amounts of data,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Andrea Galimberti , Gabriele Montanaro , Andrea Motta , Federico Proverbio , Davide Zoni

Supporting the programming of stateful packet forwarding functions in hardware has recently attracted the interest of the research community. When designing such switching chips, the challenge is to guarantee the ability to program…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Carmelo Cascone , Roberto Bifulco , Salvatore Pontarelli , Antonio Capone

Our ISCA 2013 paper provides a fundamental empirical understanding of two major factors that make it very difficult to determine the minimum data retention time of a DRAM cell, based on the first comprehensive experimental characterization…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Onur Mutlu

This paper presents a tutorial and review of SRAM-based Compute-in-Memory (CIM) circuits, with a focus on both Digital CIM (DCIM) and Analog CIM (ACIM) implementations. We explore the fundamental concepts, architectures, and operational…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Kentaro Yoshioka , Shimpei Ando , Satomi Miyagi , Yung-Chin Chen , Wenlun Zhang

The speed of modern digital systems is severely limited by memory latency (the ``Memory Wall'' problem). Data exchange between Logic and Memory is also responsible for a large part of the system energy consumption. Logic--In--Memory (LiM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Fabrizio Ottati , Giovanna Turvani , Marco Vacca , Guido Masera

The current mobile applications have rapidly growing memory footprints, posing a great challenge for memory system design. Insufficient DRAM main memory will incur frequent data swaps between memory and storage, a process that hurts…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Fei Wen , Mian Qin , Paul Gratz , Narasimha Reddy