RETBLEED: New Spectre-BTI Attack (ETH Zurich)


New Spectre-BTI attack that "leaks arbitrary kernel memory." It's detailed in this research paper titled “RETBLEED: Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions” from researchers at ETH Zürich. Mitigations are available. Abstract "Modern operating systems rely on software defenses against hardware attacks. These defenses are, however, as good as the assumptions they m... » read more

Effectiveness of a Reinforcement-Learning Based Dynamic Power Manager In a SW Framework


New technical paper titled "Low-Overhead Reinforcement Learning-Based Power Management Using 2QoSM" from researchers at ETH Zurich and Georgia Tech. Abstract "With the computational systems of even embedded devices becoming ever more powerful, there is a need for more effective and pro-active methods of dynamic power management. The work presented in this paper demonstrates the effectiven... » read more

Sibyl, a lightweight, reinforcement learning-based data placement technique for hybrid storage systems (ETH Zurich)


New research paper titled "Sibyl: Adaptive and Extensible Data Placement in Hybrid Storage Systems Using Online Reinforcement Learning" from researchers at ETH Zurich, Eindhoven University of Technology, and LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS. Abstract "Hybrid storage systems (HSS) use multiple different storage devices to provide high and scalable storage capacity at high performance. Recent r... » read more

Technical Paper Round-Up: June 28


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=35 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit f... » read more

End to End System Design for DRAM-based TRNG


Research paper titled "DR-STRaNGe: End-to-End System Design for DRAM-based True Random Number Generators" is presented from researchers at TOBB University of Economics and Technology and ETH Zurich. Abstract "Random number generation is an important task in a wide variety of critical applications including cryptographic algorithms, scientific simulations, and industrial testing tools. True ... » read more

Technical Paper Round-Up: June 21


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=34 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit f... » read more

Hardware Dynamic IFT Mechanism That Scales to Complex Open-Source RISC-V Processors


New technical paper titled "CellIFT: Leveraging Cells for Scalable and Precise Dynamic Information Flow Tracking in Hardware Designs" by researchers at ETH Zurich and Intel.  Paper to be presented at USENIX Security 2022 (August 10-12, 2022) in Boston, MA, USA. Partial Abstract "We introduce CELLIFT, a new design point in the space of dynamic IFT [Information flow tracking] for hardware. C... » read more

ETH Zurich: PIM (Processing In Memory) Architecture, UPMEM & PrIM Benchmarks


New paper technical titled "Benchmarking a New Paradigm: An Experimental Analysis of a Real Processing-in-Memory Architecture" led by researchers at ETH Zurich. Researchers provide a comprehensive analysis of the first publicly-available real-world PIM architecture, UPMEM, and introduce PrIM (Processing-In-Memory benchmarks), a benchmark suite of 16 workloads from different application domai... » read more

Technical Paper Round-Up: June 8


  New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=32 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a ... » read more

Hybrid Sensing Platform w/Silicon Nanowires on a Fully Functional CMOS Chip Containing the Readout Electronics & Signal amplification


New technical paper titled "Multisite Dopamine Sensing With Femtomolar Resolution Using a CMOS Enabled Aptasensor Chip" from TU Dresden, Riken Quantitative Biological Center, Imperial College London, NaMLab gGmbH, ETH Zürich, MaxWell Biosystems AG, TU Wien, and Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research. Abstract "Many biomarkers including neurotransmitters are found in external bo... » read more

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