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Reducing the threshold voltage of electronic devices increases their sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation dramatically, increasing the probability of changing the memory cells' content. Designers mitigate failures using techniques such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-14 David Freitas , David Mota , Clailton Lopes , Daniel Simões , Jarbas Silveira , João Mota , César Marcon

Computing-in-memory (CIM) promises to alleviate the Von Neumann bottleneck and accelerate data-intensive applications. Depending on the underlying technology and configuration, CIM enables implementing compute primitives in place, such as…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Preston Brazzle , Benjamin F. Morris , Evan McKinney , Peipei Zhou , Jingtong Hu , Asif Ali Khan , Alex K. Jones

Increasing single-cell DRAM error rates have pushed DRAM manufacturers to adopt on-die error-correction coding (ECC), which operates entirely within a DRAM chip to improve factory yield. The on-die ECC function and its effects on DRAM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Minesh Patel , Jeremie S. Kim , Taha Shahroodi , Hasan Hassan , Onur Mutlu

In this paper we describe a new error-correcting code (ECC) inspired by the Naccache-Stern cryptosystem. While by far less efficient than Turbo codes, the proposed ECC happens to be more efficient than some established ECCs for certain sets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Eric Brier , Jean-Sébastien Coron , Rémi Géraud , Diana Maimut , David Naccache

Satellites are highly vulnerable to adversarial glitches or high-energy radiation in space, which could cause faults on the onboard computer. Various radiation- and fault-tolerant methods, such as error correction codes (ECC) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana , Saleh Khalaj Monfared , Shahin Tajik

We consider a neural network (NN) that may experience memory faults and computational errors. In this paper, we propose a novel real-number-based error correction code (ECC) capable of detecting and correcting both memory errors and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ziqing Li , Myung Cho , Qiutong Jin , Weiyu Xu

Assume that a graph $G$ models a detection system for a facility with a possible "intruder," or a multiprocessor network with a possible malfunctioning processor. We consider the problem of placing (the minimum number of) detectors at a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Devin Jean , Suk Seo

The continuing advancement of memory technology has not only fueled a surge in performance, but also substantially exacerbate reliability challenges. Traditional solutions have primarily focused on improving the efficiency of protection…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Fan Li , Mimi Xie , Yanan Guo , Huize Li , Xin Xin

We describe a replacement for RAID 6, based on a new linear, systematic code, which detects and corrects any combination of $E$ errors (unknown location) and $Z$ erasures (known location) provided that $Z+2E \leq 4$. We investigate some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Mohamad Moussa , Marek Rychlik

The impeccable design of sensitive and cryptographic circuits (CC) against fault injection attacks is essential for modern data storage, communication, and computation systems that are susceptible to fault injection attacks. The robustness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Ali Vosoughi , Longfei Wang , Selçuk Köse

This study investigates the capabilities of Cyclic Redundancy Checks(CRCs) to detect burst and random errors. Researchers have favored these error detection codes throughout the evolution of computing and have implemented them in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Waylon Jepsen

The scaling of high density NOR Flash memory devices with multi level cell (MLC) hits the reliability break wall because of relatively high intrinsic bit error rate (IBER). The chip maker companies offer two solutions to meet the output bit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Daniel L. Miller

Reliability is an important requirement for both communication and storage systems. Due to continuous scale down of technology multiple adjacent bits error probability increases. The data may be corrupted due soft errors. Error correction…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Sayan Tripathi , Jhilam Jana , Jaydeb Bhaumik

Error correction is a significant step in postprocessing of continuous-variable quantum key distribution system, which is used to make two distant legitimate parties share identical corrected keys. We propose an experiment demonstration of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Xiangyu Wang , Yi-Chen Zhang , Song Yu , Hong Guo

Embedded RAM blocks (BRAMs) in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are susceptible to single event effects (SEEs) induced by environmental factors such as cosmic rays, heavy ions, alpha particles and so on. As technology scales, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Zhenlei Yang , Xiaohui Wang , Zhangang Zhang , Jie Liu , Hong Su

Channel coding is vital for reliable sixth-generation (6G) data transmission, employing diverse error correction codes for various application scenarios. Traditional decoders require dedicated hardware for each code, leading to high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yongli Yan , Jieao Zhu , Tianyue Zheng , Zhuo Xu , Chao Jiang , Linglong Dai

Reliable qubits are difficult to engineer, but standard fault-tolerance schemes use seven or more physical qubits to encode each logical qubit, with still more qubits required for error correction. The large overhead makes it hard to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Rui Chao , Ben W. Reichardt

This paper studies the impact of DRAM writes on DDR5-based system. To efficiently perform DRAM writes, modern systems buffer write requests and try to complete multiple write operations whenever the DRAM mode is switched from read to write.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Suhas Vittal , Moinuddin Qureshi

Spin Transfer Torque MRAMs are attractive due to their non-volatility, high density and zero leakage. However, STT-MRAMs suffer from poor reliability due to shared read and write paths. Additionally, conflicting requirements for data…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Zoha Pajouhi , Xuanyao Fong , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy

A construction using the E8 lattice and Reed-Solomon codes for error-correction in flash memory is given. Since E8 lattice decoding errors are bursty, a Reed-Solomon code over GF($2^8$) is well suited. This is a type of coded modulation,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Brian M. Kurkoski