Computer Architecture - Lecture 3: Memory Systems: Challenges and Opportunities (Fall 2025)

Computer Architecture, ETH Zürich, Fall 2025 (Course page: https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture/f...)

Lecture 3: Memory Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Lecturer: Prof. Onur Mutlu (https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/)
Date: October 2, 2025

Lecture 3: Memory Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Slides (pptx): https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture/f...
Slides (pdf): https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture/f...

Lecture 3a: Memory-Centric Computing I
Slides (pptx): https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture/f...
Slides (pdf): https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture/f...

Recommended Reading: 
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A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.03112.pdf

Memory-Centric Computing: Solving Computing's Memory Problem
https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2505.00458

Memory-Centric Computing: Recent Advances in Processing-in-DRAM
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19275 

Intelligent Architectures for Intelligent Computing Systems 
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub...

RowHammer: A Retrospective
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub...

Fundamentally Understanding and Solving RowHammer
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.07613.pdf

Accelerating Genome Analysis via Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub...

From Molecules to Genomic Variations: Accelerating Genome Analysis via Intelligent Algorithms and Architectures
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub...


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