A survey of test and reliability solutions for magnetic random access memories

P Girard, Y Cheng, A Virazel, W Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Memories occupy most of the silicon area in nowadays' system-on-chips and contribute to a
significant part of system power consumption. Though widely used, nonvolatile Flash …

Data block manipulation for error rate reduction in STT-MRAM based main memory

N Mahdavi, F Razaghian, H Farbeh - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2022 - Springer
Downscaling of semiconductor technology has led DRAM-based main memories to lag
behind emerging non-volatile memories, eg, Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic Random …

3RSeT: Read disturbance rate reduction in STT-MRAM caches by selective tag comparison

E Cheshmikhani, H Farbeh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent development in memory technologies has introduced Spin-Transfer Torque
Magnetic RAM (STT-MRAM) as the most promising replacement for SRAMs in on-chip …

A system-level framework for analytical and empirical reliability exploration of STT-MRAM caches

E Cheshmikhani, H Farbeh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spin-transfer torque magnetic RAM (STT-MRAM) is known as the most promising
replacement for static random access memory (SRAM) technology in large last-level cache …

Mitigating negative impacts of read disturb in SSDs

J Li, B Huang, Z Sha, Z Cai, J Liao, B Gerofi… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Read disturb is a circuit-level noise in solid-state drives (SSDs), which may corrupt existing
data in SSD blocks and then cause high read error rate and longer read latency. The …

ECC-United Cache: Maximizing efficiency of error detection/correction codes in associative cache memories

H Farbeh, L Delshadtehrani, H Kim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Error Detection/Correction Codes (EDCs/ECCs) are the most conventional approaches to
protect on-chip caches against radiation-induced soft errors. The overhead of EDCs/ECCs is …

CRP: Conditional replacement policy for reliability enhancement of STT-MRAM caches

M Rahbari, H Farbeh - IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by the trends of emerging technologies in on-chip memories, with increasing the size
of last-level caches (LLCs), spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memories (STT …

CoPA: Cold page awakening to overcome retention failures in STT-MRAM based i/O buffers

M Hadizadeh, E Cheshmikhani… - … on Parallel and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Performance and reliability are two prominent factors in the design of data storage systems.
To achieve higher performance, recently storage system designers use (DRAM)-based …

Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Intracell Magnetic Coupling-Induced Variability of Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic RAMs

R Dutta, SB Hamid, JH Lim, J Tan… - … on Electron Devices, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The impact of intracell magnetic coupling on spin transfer torque-magnetic random access
memory (STT-MRAM) device-to-device variability has been investigated based on …

STAIR: High reliable STT-MRAM aware multi-level I/O cache architecture by adaptive ECC allocation

M Hadizadeh, E Cheshmikhani… - 2020 Design, Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid Multi-Level Cache Architectures (HCAs) are promising solutions for the growing need
of high-performance and cost-efficient data storage systems. HCAs employ a high endurable …