Data Access and Storage Management for Embedded Programmable Processors

1. Front Matter

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2. Data Transfer and Storage Exploration in Programmable Architectures

   • Francky Catthoor, Koen Danckaert, Chidamber Kulkarni, Erik Brockmeyer, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Tanja Van Achteren et al.

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3. Related Compiler Work on Data Transfer and Storage Management

   • Francky Catthoor, Koen Danckaert, Chidamber Kulkarni, Erik Brockmeyer, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Tanja Van Achteren et al.

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4. Global Loop Transformation Steering

   • Francky Catthoor, Koen Danckaert, Chidamber Kulkarni, Erik Brockmeyer, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Tanja Van Achteren et al.

   Pages 33-77

5. System-Level Storage Estimation with Partially Fixed Execution Ordering

   • Francky Catthoor, Koen Danckaert, Chidamber Kulkarni, Erik Brockmeyer, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Tanja Van Achteren et al.

   Pages 79-117

6. Automated Data Reuse Exploration Techniques

   • Francky Catthoor, Koen Danckaert, Chidamber Kulkarni, Erik Brockmeyer, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Tanja Van Achteren et al.

   Pages 119-132

7. Storage Cycle Budget Distribution and Access Ordering

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   Pages 133-177

8. Cache Optimization Methodologies and Automation

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   Pages 179-238

9. Demonstrator Designs

   • Francky Catthoor, Koen Danckaert, Chidamber Kulkarni, Erik Brockmeyer, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Tanja Van Achteren et al.

   Pages 239-273

10. Conclusions and Future Work

    • Francky Catthoor, Koen Danckaert, Chidamber Kulkarni, Erik Brockmeyer, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Tanja Van Achteren et al.

    Pages 275-278

11. Back Matter

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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.

• DRAM
• Hardware
• Mapping
• SDRAM
• architecture
• communication
• compiler
• consumption
• optimization
• performance
• storage

• IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

  Francky Catthoor, Koen Danckaert, Chidamber Kulkarni, Erik Brockmeyer, Thierry Omnes

• Norwegian Univ. of Sc. and Tech. (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

  Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  Tanja Achteren

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