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Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in electrical and computer engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

Prerequisites: Maturity in understanding of operating systems, systems architecture, memory and storage systems. One of the following courses: ECE 391, ECE 411, or ECE 511. In this course, we will discuss advanced techniques for building memory and storage systems. The course will cover a variety of latest research topics centered around the memory and storage systems that include the new and emerging hardware architecture, memory/storage systems software, memory-centric applications, near-storage computing, rack-scale storage, storage security and reliability, mobile/wearable/IoT storage, and storage in large-scale data centers. In each lecture, we will discuss 2 research papers for each topic. In addition, we provide 2-4 more papers as optional reading for students who wish to dig deeper into these topics. Through this course, students will learn not only the fundamental concepts of memory and storage systems via the lecture materials, but also the hands-on experience of building and