Background Seed location filtering is critical in DNA read mapping, a process where billions
of DNA fragments (reads) sampled from a donor are mapped onto a reference genome to …

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are commonly used in cryptography to identify
devices based on the uniqueness of their physical microstructures. DRAM-based PUFs have …

Main memory (DRAM) consumes as much as half of the total system power in a computer
today, due to the increasing demand for memory capacity and bandwidth. There is a …

DRAM latency is a major bottleneck for many applications in modern computing systems. In
this work, we rigorously characterize the effects of reducing DRAM access latency on 282 …

Poor DRAM technology scaling over the course of many years has caused DRAM-based
main memory to increasingly become a larger system bottleneck. A major reason for the …

Long DRAM access latency is a major bottleneck for system performance. In order to access
data in DRAM, a memory controller (1) activates (ie, opens) a row of DRAM cells in a cell …

ABSTRACT A DRAM chip requires periodic refresh operations to prevent data loss due to
charge leakage in DRAM cells. Refresh operations incur significant performance overhead …

NAND flash memory is ubiquitous in everyday life today because its capacity has
continuously increased and cost has continuously decreased over decades. This positive …

Refresh schemes have been the default approach in NAND flash memory to avoid data
losses. The critical issue of the refresh schemes is that they introduce additional costs on …

The slowdown in technology scaling mandates rethinking of conventional CPU architectures
in a quest for higher performance and new capabilities. This work takes a step in this …