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DRAM chips are vulnerable to read disturbance phenomena (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress), where repeatedly accessing or keeping open a DRAM row causes bitflips in nearby rows. Attackers leverage RowHammer bitflips in real systems to take over…

RowHammer (RH) is a significant and worsening security, safety, and reliability issue of modern DRAM chips that can be exploited to break memory isolation. Therefore, it is important to understand real DRAM chips' RH characteristics.…

We will discuss the RowHammer problem in DRAM, which is a prime (and likely the first) example of how a circuit-level failure mechanism in Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) can cause a practical and widespread system security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Onur Mutlu

The increasing density of modern DRAM has heightened its vulnerability to Rowhammer attacks, which induce bit flips by repeatedly accessing specific memory rows. This paper presents an analysis of bit flip patterns generated by advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Andrew Adiletta , Zane Weissman , Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana , Berk Sunar , Shahin Tajik

RowHammer is a major read disturbance mechanism in DRAM where repeatedly accessing (hammering) a row of DRAM cells (DRAM row) induces bitflips in other physically nearby DRAM rows. RowHammer solutions perform preventive actions (e.g.,…

This paper investigates the relationship between mapping style and device roadmap in Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) architectures for neuromorphic computing. The study leverages simulations using DNN+NeuroSim to evaluate the impact…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Enrico F. Persico

Modern architecture research relies on simulators to evaluate system security, yet analyzing emerging hardware vulnerabilities like RowHammer requires full-system visibility. As RowHammer vulnerabilities worsen with continuous technology…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kaustav Goswami , Ayaz Akram , Hari Venugopalan , Jason Lowe-Power

State-of-the-art DRAM read disturbance mitigations rely on the read disturbance threshold (RDT) (e.g., the number of aggressor row activations needed to induce the first read disturbance bitflip) to securely and performance- and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ataberk Olgun , F. Nisa Bostanci , Ismail Emir Yuksel , Haocong Luo , Minesh Patel , A. Giray Yaglikci , Onur Mutlu

Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is gaining popularity due to its ability to offer computing within the memory and its non-volatile nature. The unique properties of RRAM, such as binary switching, multi-state switching, and device…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Simranjeet Singh , Farhad Merchant , Sachin Patkar

Device fingerprinting leverages attributes that capture heterogeneity in hardware and software configurations to extract unique and stable fingerprints. Fingerprinting countermeasures attempt to either present a uniform fingerprint across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Hari Venugopalan , Kaustav Goswami , Zainul Abi Din , Jason Lowe-Power , Samuel T. King , Zubair Shafiq

RowHammer vulnerabilities pose a significant threat to modern DRAM-based systems, where rapid activation of DRAM rows can induce bit-flips in neighboring rows. To mitigate this, state-of-the-art host-side RowHammer mitigations typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jeonghyun Woo , Prashant J. Nair

Read disturbance in modern DRAM chips is a widespread phenomenon and is reliably used for breaking memory isolation, a fundamental building block for building robust systems. RowHammer and RowPress are two examples of read disturbance in…

Rowhammer poses a significant security challenge for modern computers, specifically affecting Dynamic Random Access Memory(DRAM). Given society's growing reliance on computer systems, ensuring the reliability of hardware is of utmost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Amir Naseredini

RowHammer is a major read disturbance mechanism in DRAM where repeatedly accessing (hammering) a row of DRAM cells (DRAM row) induces bitflips in physically nearby DRAM rows (victim rows). To ensure robust DRAM operation, state-of-the-art…

Predictable execution time upon accessing shared memories in multi-core real-time systems is a stringent requirement. A plethora of existing works focus on the analysis of Double Data Rate Dynamic Random Access Memories (DDR DRAMs), or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Mohamed Hassan

Resistive random access memory (RRAM) is very well known for its potential application in in-memory and neural computing. However, they often have different types of device-to-device and cycle-to-cycle variability. This makes it harder to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Rajalekshmi TR , Rinku Rani Das , Chithra R , Alex James

The RowHammer vulnerability in DRAM is a critical threat to system security. To protect against RowHammer, vendors commit to security-through-obscurity: modern DRAM chips rely on undocumented, proprietary, on-die mitigations, commonly known…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Hasan Hassan , Yahya Can Tugrul , Jeremie S. Kim , Victor van der Veen , Kaveh Razavi , Onur Mutlu

Today's systems have diverse needs that are difficult to address using one-size-fits-all commodity DRAM. Unfortunately, although system designers can theoretically adapt commodity DRAM chips to meet their particular design goals (e.g., by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Minesh Patel , Taha Shahroodi , Aditya Manglik , A. Giray Yaglikci , Ataberk Olgun , Haocong Luo , Onur Mutlu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to tolerate "brain damage": cumulative changes to the network's parameters (e.g., pruning, numerical perturbations) typically result in a graceful degradation of classification accuracy. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Sanghyun Hong , Pietro Frigo , Yiğitcan Kaya , Cristiano Giuffrida , Tudor Dumitraş

Rowhammer is a well-studied DRAM phenomenon wherein multiple activations to a given row can cause bit flips in adjacent rows. Many mitigation techniques have been introduced to address Rowhammer, with some support being incorporated into…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Maccoy Merrell , Daniel Puckett , Gino Chacon , Jeffrey Stuecheli , Stavros Kalafatis , Paul V. Gratz