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Source Code Optimization Techniques for Data Flow Dominated Embedded Software

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Heiko Falk

    1. University of Dortmund, Germany

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  2. Peter Marwedel

    1. University of Dortmund, Germany

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  • Key reference for researchers, design engineers and compiler / system CAD managers in industry who wish to anticipate the evolution of commercially available design tools over the next few years, or to make use of the concepts of this book in their own research and development

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    • Heiko Falk, Peter Marwedel
    Pages 1-13

  3. Existing Code Optimization Techniques

    • Heiko Falk, Peter Marwedel
    Pages 15-23

  4. Fundamental Concepts for Optimization and Evaluation

    • Heiko Falk, Peter Marwedel
    Pages 25-39

  5. Intermediate Representations and Their Suitability for Source Code Optimization

    • Heiko Falk, Peter Marwedel
    Pages 41-52

  6. Loop Nest Splitting

    • Heiko Falk, Peter Marwedel
    Pages 53-117

  7. Advanced Code Hoisting

    • Heiko Falk, Peter Marwedel
    Pages 119-162

  8. Ring Buffer Replacement

    • Heiko Falk, Peter Marwedel
    Pages 163-180

  9. Summary and Conclusions

    • Heiko Falk, Peter Marwedel
    Pages 181-187

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 189-226
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This book focuses on source-to-source code transformations that remove addressing-related overhead present in most multimedia or signal processing application programs. This approach is complementary to existing compiler technology. What is particularly attractive about the transformation flow pre­ sented here is that its behavior is nearly independent of the target processor platform and the underlying compiler. Hence, the different source code trans­ formations developed here lead to impressive performance improvements on most existing processor architecture styles, ranging from RISCs like ARM7 or MIPS over Superscalars like Intel-Pentium, PowerPC, DEC-Alpha, Sun and HP, to VLIW DSPs like TI C6x and Philips TriMedia. The source code did not have to be modified between processors to obtain these results. Apart from the performance improvements, the estimated energy is also significantly reduced for a given application run. These results were not obtained for academic codes but for realistic and rep­ resentative applications, all selected from the multimedia domain. That shows the industrial relevance and importance of this research. At the same time, the scientific novelty and quality of the contributions have lead to several excellent papers that have been published in internationally renowned conferences like e. g. DATE. This book is hence of interest for academic researchers, both because of the overall description of the methodology and related work context and for the detailed descriptions of the compilation techniques and algorithms.

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  • University of Dortmund, Germany

    Heiko Falk, Peter Marwedel

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