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Title: | Dram Bender: an Extensible and Versatile Fpga-Based Infrastructure To Easily Test State-Of Dram Chips | Authors: | Olgun, A. Hassan, H. Yaglikci, A.G. Tugrul, Y.C. Orosa, L. Luo, H. Patel, M. |
Keywords: | C++ languages DRAM DRAM chips Energy Field programmable gate arrays FPGA Light rail systems Memory Systems Open Source Performance Prototypes Random access memory Reliability Security Testing Testing |
Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | Abstract: | To understand and improve DRAM performance, reliability, security, and energy efficiency, prior works study characteristics of commodity DRAM chips. Unfortunately, stateof-the-art open source infrastructures capable of conducting such studies are obsolete, poorly supported, or difficult to use, or their inflexibility limits the types of studies they can conduct. We propose DRAM Bender, a new FPGA-based infrastructure that enables experimental studies on state-of-the-art DRAM chips. DRAM Bender offers three key features at the same time. First, DRAM Bender enables directly interfacing with a DRAM chip through its low-level interface. This allows users to issue DRAM commands in arbitrary order and with finer-grained time intervals compared to other open source infrastructures. Second, DRAM Bender exposes easy-to-use C++ and Python programming interfaces, allowing users to quickly and easily develop different types of DRAM experiments. Third, DRAM Bender is easily extensible. The modular design of DRAM Bender allows extending it to (i) support existing and emerging DRAM interfaces, and (ii) run on new commercial or custom FPGA boards with little effort. To demonstrate that DRAM Bender is a versatile infrastructure, we conduct three case studies, two of which lead to new observations about the DRAM RowHammer vulnerability. In particular, we show that data patterns supported by DRAM Bender uncover a larger set of bit-flips on a victim row than those commonly used by prior work. We demonstrate the extensibility of DRAM Bender by implementing it on five different FPGAs with DDR4 and DDR3 support. DRAM Bender is freely and openly available at https://github.com/CMU-SAFARI/DRAM-B ender. IEEE | URI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2023.3282172 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/10510 |
ISSN: | 0278-0070 |
Appears in Collections: | Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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