Selected Papers from the MEMSYS 2020—The International Symposium on Memory Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Memory-device manufacturing, memory-architecture design, and the use of memory technologies by application software all profoundly impact today’s and tomorrow’s computing systems, in terms of their performance, function, reliability, predictability, power dissipation, and cost. Existing memory technologies are seen as limiting in terms of power, capacity, and bandwidth. Emerging memory technologies offer the potential to overcome both technology- and design-related limitations to answer the requirements of many different applications.

This Special Issue will publish selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Memory Systems (MEMSYS 2020).

The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Memory-system design from both hardware and software perspectives
• Memory failure modes and mitigation strategies
• Memory and system security issues
• Memory for embedded and autonomous systems (e.g., automotive)
• Operating system design for hybrid/nonvolatile memories
• Technologies including flash, DRAM, STT-MRAM, 3DXP, etc.
• Memory-centric programming models, languages, optimization
• Compute-in-memory and compute-near-memory technologies
• Data-movement issues and mitigation techniques
• Interconnects to support large-scale data movement
• Algorithmic and software memory-management techniques
• Emerging memory technologies, their controllers, and novel uses
• Interference at the memory level across datacenter applications
• Issues in the design and operation of large-memory machines
• In-memory databases and NoSQL stores
• Post-CMOS scaling efforts and memory technologies to support them, including cryogenic, neural, and heterogeneous memories

Papers that attract the most interest at the conference, or that provide novel contributions, will be selected for publication in Micromachines. These papers will be peer-reviewed for validation of research results, developments, and applications.

Dr. Matthias Jung
Prof. Dr. Bruce Jacob
Guest Editors

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