Title
Efficient system-level prototyping of power-aware dynamic memory managers for embedded systems
Abstract
In the near future, portable embedded devices must run multimedia and wireless network applications with enormous computational performance (1-40GOPS) requirements at a low energy consumption (0.1-2W). In these applications, the dynamic memory subsystem is currently one of the main sources of power consumption and its inappropriate management can severely affect the performance of the whole system. Within this context, the construction and power evaluation of custom memory managers is one of the most difficult parts for an efficient mapping of such dynamic applications on low-power embedded systems. In this paper, we present a new system-level approach to model complex dynamic memory managers integrating detailed power profiling information. This approach allows to obtain power consumption estimates, memory footprint and memory access values to refine the dynamic memory management of the system in an early stage of the design flow and to easily explore the large search space of memory manager implementations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.vlsi.2004.08.003
Integration
Keywords
Field
DocType
memory manager implementation,dynamic application,dynamic memory management,memory footprint,efficient system-level,power consumption,system-level prototyping,memory access value,power-aware dynamic memory manager,detailed power,low-power design,complex dynamic memory manager,custom memory manager,embedded system,dynamic memory subsystem,design flow,design methodology,wireless network,complex system,search space
Uniform memory access,Computer science,Distributed memory,Computing with Memory,Memory geometry,Memory management,Memory footprint,Flat memory model,Overlay,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
2
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.78
17
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Atienza12219149.60
Stylianos Mamagkakis214213.16
Francesco Poletti335523.83
José M. Mendías427319.60
Francky Catthoor53932423.30
Luca Benini6131161188.49
Dimitrios Soudris78218.71