Rowpress: Amplifying read disturbance in modern dram chips

H Luo, A Olgun, AG Yağlıkçı, YC Tuğrul… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Memory isolation is critical for system reliability, security, and safety. Unfortunately, read
disturbance can break memory isolation in modern DRAM chips. For example, RowHammer …

Pride: Achieving secure rowhammer mitigation with low-cost in-dram trackers

A Jaleel, G Saileshwar, SW Keckler… - 2024 ACM/IEEE 51st …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rowhammer-induced bit-flips are a threat to DRAM security. To mitigate Rowhammer,
DDR4 devices employ TRR, an in-DRAM tracker, to identify aggressor rows. In-DRAM …

Start: Scalable tracking for any rowhammer threshold

A Saxena, M Qureshi - 2024 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Rowhammer vulnerability is worsening, with the Rowhammer Threshold (T RH)
reducing from 139K to 4.8 K activations over the last decade. As thresholds reduce further …

DRAM bender: An extensible and versatile FPGA-based infrastructure to easily test state-of-the-art DRAM chips

A Olgun, H Hassan, AG Yağlıkçı… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To understand and improve DRAM performance, reliability, security, and energy efficiency,
prior works study characteristics of commodity DRAM chips. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art …

Survey of CPU and memory simulators in computer architecture: A comprehensive analysis including compiler integration and emerging technology applications

I Hwang, J Lee, H Kang, G Lee, H Kim - Simulation Modelling Practice and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In computer architecture studies, simulators are crucial for design verification, reducing
research and development time and ensuring the high accuracy of verification results …

MINT: Securely mitigating rowhammer with a minimalist in-dram tracker

M Qureshi, S Qazi, A Jaleel - 2024 57th IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates secure low-cost in-DRAM trackers for mitigating Rowhammer (RH).
In-DRAM solutions have the potential to solve the RH problem within the DRAM chip without …

Rubix: Reducing the overhead of secure rowhammer mitigations via randomized line-to-row map**

A Saxena, S Mathur, M Qureshi - Proceedings of the 29th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Modern systems mitigate Rowhammer using victim refresh, which refreshes neighbours of
an aggressor row when it encounters a specified number of activations. Unfortunately …

How to kill the second bird with one ecc: The pursuit of row hammer resilient dram

MJ Kim, M Wi, J Park, S Ko, J Choi, H Nam… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Error-correcting code (ECC) has been widely used in DRAM-based memory systems to
address the exacerbating random errors following the fabrication process scaling. However …

Spatial Variation-Aware Read Disturbance Defenses: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Solutions

AG Yağlıkçı, YC Tuğrul, GF Oliveira… - … Symposium on High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Hifi-dram: Enabling high-fidelity dram research by uncovering sense amplifiers with ic imaging

M Marazzi, T Sachsenweger, F Solt… - 2024 ACM/IEEE 51st …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DRAM vendors do not disclose the architecture of the sense amplifiers deployed in their
chips. Unfortunately, this hinders academic research that focuses on studying or improving …