Buzzwords are terms that are mentioned during lecture which are particularly important to understand thoroughly. This page tracks the buzzwords for each of the lectures and can be used as a reference for finding gaps in your understanding of course material.

• Computer Architecture
• The transformation hierarchy
  • Levels of transformation
• Design goals
• Google tensor processing unit (TPU)
• Tesla self-driving computer
• Redundant cores for better safety
• Energy efficiency and performance
• Intel Optane persistent memory (3D-XPoint)
• Cerebra's wafer scale engine
• Graphics processing unit (GPU)
• UPMEM processing-in-DRAM
• Samsung Function-in-Memory DRAM
• Processing-in-memory
• AI/ML chips
• Reliability and security
• RowHammer
• DRAM row
• Meltdown and Spectre
• Genome sequencing
  • Covid-19 nanopore sequencing
• Computing paradigms
• Accelerators (algorithm-hardware codesign)
• Memory and storage systems
• Bahnhof Stadelhofen
• Santiago Calatrava
• Architecture
• Tradeoffs
• Evaluation criteria
• Principled design
• Design constrains

• Data Movement
• Processing in memory (PIM)
• In-memory computation/processing
• Near-data processing (NDP)
• UPMEM Processing-in-DRAM Engine
• 3D-stacked memory
• RowClone
• Gather/Scatter DRAM
• Bulk data copy and initialization
• In-Memory copy
• Intra-subarray
• Inter-bank
• Memory as an accelerator
• Low-cost Inter-linked subarrays (LISA)
• Fine-Grained In-DRAM Copy (FIGARO)
• Network-On-Memory
• Bulk Bitwise in-DRAM Computation (Ambit)
• Intelligent Memory Device
• ComputeDRAM
• Dual Contact Cell
• New memory technologies

• Bioinformatics
• Genome Analysis
• DNA Testing
• Chromosomes
• SNPs
• Personalized Medicine
• Phenotypes
• Privacy-Preserving Genome Analysis
• SARS-CoV-2
• Microbiome Profiling
• High-Throughput Sequencers
• Genome Sequencing
• PacBio
• DNA
• Reference Genome
• Metagenomics
• Read Mapping
• Hashing
• Seeds
• Read Alignment
• Smith-Waterman
• Hamming distance
• Accelerating Read Mapping
• Seed Filtering
• Pre-alignment Filtering
• Read Alignment Acceleration
• FastHASH
• Cheap K-mer Selection
• GateKeeper
• Shifted Hamming Distance
• FPGA
• Shouji
• SneakySnake
• Hybrid Memory Cube
• Ambit
• RowClone
• Pinatubo
• Tesseract
• GRIM-Filter
• GenCache
• Darwin
• GenASM
• AirLift
• UPMEM

• Spectre
• Branches
• Misspeculation
• Out-of-Order
• Flush cache
• Side-channel attack
• Rowhammer
• DRAM scaling
• Bloom filter
• Blockhammer
• Throttle
• Blacklisting

• True Random Number Generators (TRNGs)
• NIST tests
• DRAM cell Activation failure
• Entropy source
• DRAM timing constraints
• Startup values
• Data retention
• Charge sharing
• Bit-serial operations
• Bit-parallel arithmetics
• DRAM subarray

• PageRank
• Spatial/temporal locality
• 3D stacking
• PIM
• PEI
• Intrinsics
• Locality-aware
• Through-Silicon Via (TSV)
• Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC)
• PIM Computation Unit (PCU)
• PIM Management Unit (PMU)
• Atomicity
• Reader-writer lock
• Cache coherence
• Locality-aware execution

• On-chip networks
• Chip router
• Buffer routing
• Bufferless routing
• Reroute
• Youngest flit
• Head flit
• Worm deflection
• Worm truncation
• Routing mechanism
• Homogeneous
• High propability
• Congestion control
• Network type
• Prefetcher
• Data-indirect workloads
• Data indirection graph
• Indirect memory accesses
• Breadth-First Search
• Data-dependent loads
• Load-dependent branches
• Allocator calls
• Dependent loads
• Adjacent bounds
• No inbound edges
• Dedicated SRAM
• Prefetch Status Handling Registers

• Branch prediction
• Perceptron
• Pipeline
• Control hazard
• Branch history table (BHT)
• Pattern History Table (PHT)
• Memory controller
• Machine Learning
• Reinforcement learning
• Chip Multiprocessors
• Off-chip bandwidth
• Memory
• Self-optimizing
• Environment
• Agent
• Reward
• Bus utilization
• Feature selection
• Q-values
• CMAC representation

• Deep Neural Network (DNN)
• Approximation
• Quantization
• Huffman Coding
• Pruning
• Training
• Inference
• Sparsity
• Robustness
• SneakySnake
• Genome Pre-alignment
• Hardware Acceleration
• Read Mapping
• Sequence Alignment
• Approximate String Matching (ASM)
• Single Net Routing (SNR)
• Filtering Accuracy
• Short Sequences
• Long Sequence

• DRAM Access Latency
• DRAM Subarray
• DRAM Row Buffer Hit Rate
• In-DRAM Caching
• Heterogeneous DRAM Bank
• Heterogeneous DRAM Subarray
• DRAM Row
• Bulk In-DRAM Data Movement
• Fine-Grained In-DRAM Data Movement
• Local Row Buffer
• Global Bitline
• Global Row Buffer
• Simultaneous Row Activation
• Column Decoding
• Cache Miss/Hit
• Cache Line Replacement Policy
• Software Instrumentation
• Misses Per Kilo Instruction (MPKI)
• Weighted Speedup
• ECC Memory
• On-Die ECC