Custom Memory Management Methodology: Exploration of Memory Organisation for Embedded Multimedia System Design - Hardcover

Catthoor, Francky; Wuytack, Sven; De Greef, G.E.; Banica, Florin; Nachtergaele, Lode; Vandecappelle, Arnout

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792382889 ISBN 13: 9780792382881

Publisher: Springer, 1998

Synopsis

The main intention of this book is to give an impression of the state-of-the-art in system-level memory management (data transfer and storage) related issues for complex data-dominated real-time signal and data processing applications. The material is based on research at IMEC in this area in the period 1989- 1997. In order to deal with the stringent timing requirements and the data dominated characteristics of this domain, we have adopted a target architecture style and a systematic methodology to make the exploration and optimization of such systems feasible. Our approach is also very heavily application­ driven which is illustrated by several realistic demonstrators, partly used as red-thread examples in the book. Moreover, the book addresses only the steps above the traditional high-level synthesis (scheduling and allocation) or compilation (traditional or ILP oriented) tasks. The latter are mainly focussed on scalar or scalar stream operations and data where the internal structure of the complex data types is not exploited, in contrast to the approaches discussed here. The proposed methodologies are largely independent of the level of programmability in the data-path and controller so they are valuable for the realisation of both hardware and software systems. Our target domain consists of signal and data processing systems which deal with large amounts of data.

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Synopsis

This text offers the reader an overview of system-level memory management (data transfer and storage), related issues for complex data-dominated real-time signal and data processing applications. The authors introduce their own system-level data transfer and storage exploration methodology for data-dominated video applications. This methodology tackles the power and area reduction cost components in the architecture for this target domain, namely the system-level busses and the background memories. For the most critical tasks in the methodology, prototype tools have been developed to reduce the design time. The approach is also heavily application-driven which is illustrated by several realistic demonstrators, partly used as red-thread examples in the book. The general applicability and effectiveness has been substantiated for several industrial data-dominated applications, including H263 video conferencing decoding and medical computer tomography (CT) back projection.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792382889
• ISBN 13: 9780792382881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356