Data Access and Storage Management for Embedded Programmable Processors

✍ Scribed by Francky Catthoor, Koen Danckaert, Chidamber Kulkarni, Erik Brockmeyer, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Tanja Van Achteren, Thierry Omnes (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Data Access and Storage Management for Embedded Programmable Processors gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in system-level data access and storage management for embedded programmable processors. The targeted application domain covers complex embedded real-time multi-media and communication applications. Many of these applications are data-dominated in the sense that their cost related aspects, namely power consumption and footprint are heavily influenced (if not dominated) by the data access and storage aspects. The material is mainly based on research at IMEC in this area in the period 1996-2001. In order to deal with the stringent timing requirements and the data dominated characteristics of this domain, we have adopted a target architecture style that is compatible with modern embedded processors, and we have developed a systematic step-wise methodology to make the exploration and optimization of such applications feasible in a source-to-source precompilation approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages N3-xiv
Data Transfer and Storage Exploration in Programmable Architectures....Pages 1-24
Related Compiler Work on Data Transfer and Storage Management....Pages 25-31
Global Loop Transformation Steering....Pages 33-77
System-Level Storage Estimation with Partially Fixed Execution Ordering....Pages 79-117
Automated Data Reuse Exploration Techniques....Pages 119-132
Storage Cycle Budget Distribution and Access Ordering....Pages 133-177
Cache Optimization Methodologies and Automation....Pages 179-238
Demonstrator Designs....Pages 239-273
Conclusions and Future Work....Pages 275-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-305

✦ Subjects

Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Electrical Engineering; Control Structures and Microprogramming; Image Processing and Computer Vision