RowPress: Amplifying Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips
Haocong Luo, Ataberk Olgun, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Yahya Can Tuğrul, Steve Rhyner, Meryem Banu Cavlak, Joël Lindegger, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Onur Mutlu
Abstract
Memory isolation is critical for system reliability, security, and safety. Unfortunately, read disturbance can break memory isolation in modern DRAM chips. For example, RowHammer is awell-studied read-disturb phenomenon where repeatedly opening and closing (i.e., hammering) a DRAM row many times causes bitflips in physically nearby rows.
Topics & Concepts
DramDisturbance (geology)RowComputer scienceReliability (semiconductor)Isolation (microbiology)Memory controllerDynamic random-access memoryEmbedded systemComputer hardwareSemiconductor memoryPhysicsGeologyProgramming languagePower (physics)BiologyQuantum mechanicsPaleontologyMicrobiologySemiconductor materials and devicesAdvanced Memory and Neural ComputingFerroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices