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03/13/2023
Improving DRAM Performance, Reliability, and Security by Rigorously Understanding Intrinsic DRAM Operation
DRAM is the primary technology used for main memory in modern systems. U...
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11/10/2022
DRAM Bender: An Extensible and Versatile FPGA-based Infrastructure to Easily Test State-of-the-art DRAM Chips
To understand and improve DRAM performance, reliability, security and en...
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09/21/2022
HiRA: Hidden Row Activation for Reducing Refresh Latency of Off-the-Shelf DRAM Chips
DRAM is the building block of modern main memory systems. DRAM cells mus...
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07/27/2022
Sectored DRAM: An Energy-Efficient High-Throughput and Practical Fine-Grained DRAM Architecture
There are two major sources of inefficiency in computing systems that us...
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07/27/2022
A Case for Self-Managing DRAM Chips: Improving Performance, Efficiency, Reliability, and Security via Autonomous in-DRAM Maintenance Operations
The memory controller is in charge of managing DRAM maintenance operatio...
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06/20/2022
Understanding RowHammer Under Reduced Wordline Voltage: An Experimental Study Using Real DRAM Devices
RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability, where repeatedly activa...
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06/01/2022
PiDRAM: An FPGA-based Framework for End-to-end Evaluation of Processing-in-DRAM Techniques
DRAM-based main memory is used in nearly all computing systems as a majo...
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01/04/2022
DR-STRaNGe: End-to-End System Design for DRAM-based True Random Number Generators
Random number generation is an important task in a wide variety of criti...
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10/29/2021
PiDRAM: A Holistic End-to-end FPGA-based Framework for Processing-in-DRAM
Processing-using-memory (PuM) techniques leverage the analog operation o...
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10/20/2021
Uncovering In-DRAM RowHammer Protection Mechanisms: A New Methodology, Custom RowHammer Patterns, and Implications
The RowHammer vulnerability in DRAM is a critical threat to system secur...
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10/19/2021
A Deeper Look into RowHammer`s Sensitivities: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Attacks and Defenses
RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability where repeatedly accessi...
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06/10/2021
CODIC: A Low-Cost Substrate for Enabling Custom In-DRAM Functionalities and Optimizations
DRAM is the dominant main memory technology used in modern computing sys...
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05/17/2021
MetaSys: A Practical Open-Source Metadata Management System to Implement and Evaluate Cross-Layer Optimizations
This paper introduces the first open-source FPGA-based infrastructure, M...
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02/11/2021
BlockHammer: Preventing RowHammer at Low Cost by Blacklisting Rapidly-Accessed DRAM Rows
Aggressive memory density scaling causes modern DRAM devices to suffer f...
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09/17/2020
Bit-Exact ECC Recovery (BEER): Determining DRAM On-Die ECC Functions by Exploiting DRAM Data Retention Characteristics
Increasing single-cell DRAM error rates have pushed DRAM manufacturers t...
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05/27/2020
Revisiting RowHammer: An Experimental Analysis of Modern DRAM Devices and Mitigation Techniques
In order to shed more light on how RowHammer affects modern and future d...
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05/26/2020
CLR-DRAM: A Low-Cost DRAM Architecture Enabling Dynamic Capacity-Latency Trade-Off
DRAM is the prevalent main memory technology, but its long access latenc...
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04/03/2020
TRRespass: Exploiting the Many Sides of Target Row Refresh
After a plethora of high-profile RowHammer attacks, CPU and DRAM vendors...
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10/15/2019
Refresh Triggered Computation: Improving the Energy Efficiency of Convolutional Neural Network Accelerators
Recently, many studies proposed CNN accelerator architectures with custo...
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02/19/2019
Dataplant: In-DRAM Security Mechanisms for Low-Cost Devices
Low-cost devices are now commonplace and can be found in diverse environ...
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10/22/2018
Enabling Efficient RDMA-based Synchronous Mirroring of Persistent Memory Transactions
Synchronous Mirroring (SM) is a standard approach to building highly-ava...
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09/18/2018
Shouji: A Fast and Efficient Pre-Alignment Filter for Sequence Alignment
Motivation: The ability to generate massive amounts of sequencing data c...
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09/18/2018
Shouji: Fast and Efficient Computation of Banded Sequence Alignment
Motivation: The ability to generate massive amounts of sequencing data c...
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09/18/2018
SLIDER: Fast and Efficient Computation of Banded Sequence Alignment
Motivation: The ability to generate massive amounts of sequencing data c...
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08/13/2018
D-RaNGe: Using Commodity DRAM Devices to Generate True Random Numbers with Low Latency and High Throughput
We propose a new DRAM-based true random number generator (TRNG) that lev...
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08/13/2018
D-RaNGe: Violating DRAM Timing Constraints for High-Throughput True Random Number Generation using Commodity DRAM Devices
DRAM provides a promising substrate for generating random numbers due to...
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07/13/2018
What Your DRAM Power Models Are Not Telling You: Lessons from a Detailed Experimental Study
Main memory (DRAM) consumes as much as half of the total system power in...
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05/08/2018
Exploiting Row-Level Temporal Locality in DRAM to Reduce the Memory Access Latency
This paper summarizes the idea of ChargeCache, which was published in HP...
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05/08/2018
SoftMC: Practical DRAM Characterization Using an FPGA-Based Infrastructure
This paper summarizes the SoftMC DRAM characterization infrastructure, w...
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05/08/2018
Voltron: Understanding and Exploiting the Voltage-Latency-Reliability Trade-Offs in Modern DRAM Chips to Improve Energy Efficiency
This paper summarizes our work on experimental characterization and anal...
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05/08/2018
Flexible-Latency DRAM: Understanding and Exploiting Latency Variation in Modern DRAM Chips
This article summarizes key results of our work on experimental characte...
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06/10/2017
LazyPIM: Efficient Support for Cache Coherence in Processing-in-Memory Architectures
Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures have seen an increase in popula...
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05/29/2017
Understanding Reduced-Voltage Operation in Modern DRAM Chips: Characterization, Analysis, and Mechanisms
The energy consumption of DRAM is a critical concern in modern computing...
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11/30/2016
Buddy-RAM: Improving the Performance and Efficiency of Bulk Bitwise Operations Using DRAM
Bitwise operations are an important component of modern day programming....
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09/23/2016
Reducing DRAM Access Latency by Exploiting DRAM Leakage Characteristics and Common Access Patterns
DRAM-based memory is a critical factor that creates a bottleneck on the ...
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04/06/2016