Memory Architecture Exploration for Programmable Embedded Systems

Peter Grun, Nikil Dutt, Alexandru Nicolau (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

147 Seiten

2003
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-48095-9 (ISBN)

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Memory Architecture Exploration for Programmable Embedded Systems addresses efficient exploration of alternative memory architectures, assisted by a "compiler-in-the-loop" that allows effective matching of the target application to the processor-memory architecture. This new approach for memory architecture exploration replaces the traditional black-box view of the memory system and allows for aggressive co-optimization of the programmable processor together with a customized memory system. The book concludes with a set of experiments demonstrating the utility of this exploration approach. The authors perform architecture and compiler exploration for a set of large, real-life benchmarks, uncovering promising memory configurations from different perspectives, such as cost, performance and power. Moreover, the authors compare the Design Space Exploration heuristic with a brute force full simulation of the design space, to verify that the heuristic successfully follows a true pareto-like curve. Such an early exploration methodology can be used directly by design architects to quickly evaluate different design alternatives, and make confident design decisions based on quantitative figures.

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1: Introduction. 1.1. Motivation. 1.2. Memory Architecture Exploration for Embedded Systems. 1.3. Book Organization. 2: Related Work. 2.1.High-Level Synthesis. 2.2. Cache Optimizations. 2.3. Computer Architecture. 2.4. Disk File Systems. 2.5. Heterogeneous Memory Architectures. 2.6. Summary. 3. Early Memory Size Estimation. 3.1. Motivation. 3.2. Memory Estimation Problem. 3.3. Memory Size Estimation Algorithm. 3.4. Discussion on Parallelism vs. Memory Size. 3.5. Experiments. 3.6. Related Work. 3.7. Summary. 4: Early Memory and Connectivity Architecture Exploration. 4.1 Motivation. 4.2. Access Pattern Based Memory Architecture Exploration. 4.3. Connectivity Architecture Exploration. 4.4. Discussion on Memory Architecture. 4.5. Summary and Status. 5: Memory-Aware Compilation. 5.1. Motivation. 5.2. Memory Timing Extraction for Efficient Access Modes.5.3. Memory Miss Traffic Management. 5.4. Summary. 6: Experiments. 6.1. Experimental Setup. 6.2. Results. 6.3. Summary of Experiments. 7: Conclusions. 7.1. Summary of Contributions. 7.2. Future Directions. Bibliography. References. Index.

Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
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	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10	0-306-48095-6 / 0306480956
ISBN-13	978-0-306-48095-9 / 9780306480959
Zustand	Neuware