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Dynamic Memory Management for Embedded Systems

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Authors:
  1. David Atienza Alonso

    1. Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL), Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEL), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  2. Stylianos Mamagkakis

    1. IMEC vzw, Leuven, Belgium

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  3. Christophe Poucet

    1. IMEC vzw, Leuven, Belgium

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  4. Miguel Peón-Quirós

    1. University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  5. Alexandros Bartzas

    1. Department of Computer Science, School of Electrical & Computer Engg, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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  6. Francky Catthoor

    1. Departement ESAT - IMEC, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

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  7. Dimitrios Soudris

    1. Department of Computer Science, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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  • Provides a systematic and reusable methodology for DMM to address concerns ranging from software design to hardware-based memory management and system optimization
  • Describes in detail which optimization is the best candidate in DMM for each type of portable embedded system
  • Includes extensive examples with code excerpts, demonstrating application to multiple application domains related to multimedia and networking
  • Uses real industrial case studies to demonstrate the presented methodology
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • David Atienza Alonso, Stylianos Mamagkakis, Christophe Poucet, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Alexandros Bartzas, Francky Catthoor et al.
    Pages 1-25

  3. Analysis and Characterization of Dynamic Multimedia Applications

    • David Atienza Alonso, Stylianos Mamagkakis, Christophe Poucet, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Alexandros Bartzas, Francky Catthoor et al.
    Pages 27-49

  4. Profiling and Analysis of Dynamic Applications

    • David Atienza Alonso, Stylianos Mamagkakis, Christophe Poucet, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Alexandros Bartzas, Francky Catthoor et al.
    Pages 51-92

  5. Dynamic Data Types Optimization in Multimedia and Communication Applications

    • David Atienza Alonso, Stylianos Mamagkakis, Christophe Poucet, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Alexandros Bartzas, Francky Catthoor et al.
    Pages 93-134

  6. Intermediate Variable Removal from Dynamic Applications

    • David Atienza Alonso, Stylianos Mamagkakis, Christophe Poucet, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Alexandros Bartzas, Francky Catthoor et al.
    Pages 135-166

  7. Dynamic Memory Management Optimization for Multimedia Applications

    • David Atienza Alonso, Stylianos Mamagkakis, Christophe Poucet, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Alexandros Bartzas, Francky Catthoor et al.
    Pages 167-192

  8. Systematic Placement of Dynamic Objects Across Heterogeneous Memory Hierarchies

    • David Atienza Alonso, Stylianos Mamagkakis, Christophe Poucet, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Alexandros Bartzas, Francky Catthoor et al.
    Pages 193-229

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 231-243
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About this book

This book provides a systematic and unified methodology, including basic principles and reusable processes, for dynamic memory management (DMM) in embedded systems.  The authors describe in detail how to design and optimize the use of dynamic memory in modern, multimedia and network applications, targeting the latest generation of portable embedded systems, such as smartphones. Coverage includes a variety of design and optimization topics in electronic design automation of DMM, from high-level software optimization to microarchitecture-level hardware support.  The authors describe the design of multi-layer dynamic data structures for the final memory hierarchy layers of the target portable embedded systems and how to create a low-fragmentation, cost-efficient, dynamic memory management subsystem out of configurable components for the particular memory allocation and de-allocation patterns for each type of application.  The design methodology described in this book is based on propagating constraints among design decisions from multiple abstraction levels (both hardware and software) and customizing DMM according to application-specific data access and storage behaviors.

Reviews

“This book presents a DMM optimization approach based on dynamic memory exploration of multimedia and network applications. It explains fundamental memory problems requiring optimization and also provides the details of the proposed optimization framework. Therefore, the book is helpful both as a reference book for those who want to learn general memory optimization concepts and as a guide for those who want to apply a similar optimization technique on their systems.” (Isil Oz, Computing Reviews, May, 2015)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL), Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEL), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

    David Atienza Alonso

  • IMEC vzw, Leuven, Belgium

    Stylianos Mamagkakis, Christophe Poucet

  • University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Miguel Peón-Quirós

  • Department of Computer Science, School of Electrical & Computer Engg, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Alexandros Bartzas

  • Departement ESAT - IMEC, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

    Francky Catthoor

  • Department of Computer Science, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Dimitrios Soudris

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dynamic Memory Management for Embedded Systems

  • Authors: David Atienza Alonso, Stylianos Mamagkakis, Christophe Poucet, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Alexandros Bartzas, Francky Catthoor, Dimitrios Soudris

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10572-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10571-0Published: 02 October 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36220-5Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10572-7Published: 19 September 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 243

  • Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Processor Architectures, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation

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