A modern primer on processing in memory

O Mutlu, S Ghose, J Gómez-Luna… - … : From Devices to …, 2022 - Springer
Modern computing systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This
design choice goes directly against at least three key trends in computing that cause …

Uncovering in-dram rowhammer protection mechanisms: A new methodology, custom rowhammer patterns, and implications

H Hassan, YC Tugrul, JS Kim, V Van der Veen… - MICRO-54: 54th Annual …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
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 …

DAMOV: A new methodology and benchmark suite for evaluating data movement bottlenecks

GF Oliveira, J Gómez-Luna, L Orosa, S Ghose… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data movement between the CPU and main memory is a first-order obstacle against improv
ing performance, scalability, and energy efficiency in modern systems. Computer systems …

Blockhammer: Preventing rowhammer at low cost by blacklisting rapidly-accessed dram rows

AG Yağlikçi, M Patel, JS Kim, R Azizi… - … Symposium on High …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aggressive memory density scaling causes modern DRAM devices to suffer from
RowHammer, a phenomenon where rapidly activating (ie, hammering) a DRAM row can …

A deeper look into rowhammer's sensitivities: Experimental analysis of real dram chips and implications on future attacks and defenses

L Orosa, AG Yaglikci, H Luo, A Olgun, J Park… - MICRO-54: 54th Annual …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability where repeatedly accessing (ie,
hammering) a DRAM row can cause bit flips in physically nearby rows. The RowHammer …

Rega: Scalable rowhammer mitigation with refresh-generating activations

M Marazzi, F Solt, P Jattke, K Takashi… - 2023 IEEE Symposium …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mitigating Rowhammer requires performing additional refresh operations to recharge DRAM
rows before bits start to flip. These refreshes are scarce and can only happen periodically …

Figaro: Improving system performance via fine-grained in-dram data relocation and caching

Y Wang, L Orosa, X Peng, Y Guo… - 2020 53rd Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Main memory, composed of DRAM, is a performance bottleneck for many applications, due
to the high DRAM access latency. In-DRAM caches work to mitigate this latency by …

Understanding RowHammer under reduced wordline voltage: An experimental study using real DRAM devices

AG Yağlıkçı, H Luo, GF De Oliviera… - 2022 52nd Annual …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability, where repeatedly activating and
precharging a DRAM row, and thus alternating the voltage of a row's wordline between low …

Shadow: Preventing row hammer in dram with intra-subarray row shuffling

M Wi, J Park, S Ko, MJ Kim, NS Kim… - … Symposium on High …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As Row Hammer (RH) attacks have been a critical threat to computer systems, numerous
hardware-based (HWbased) RH mitigation strategies have been proposed. However, the …

PiDRAM: A Holistic End-to-end FPGA-based Framework for Processing-in-DRAM

A Olgun, JG Luna, K Kanellopoulos, B Salami… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Commodity DRAM-based processing-using-memory (PuM) techniques that are supported
by off-the-shelf DRAM chips present an opportunity for alleviating the data movement …