Presentation 2002/2/28
Low-Energy Memory Allocation and Assignment Based on Variable Analysis for Application-Specific Systems
Yun CAO, Takanori OKUMA, Hiroto YASUURA,
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Abstract(in English) This paper presents a novel low-energy memory design technique based on variable analysis for on-chip data memory (RAM) in application-specific systems, which called VAbM technique. It targets the exploitation of both data locality and effective data width of variables to reduce energy consumed by data transfer and storage. Under constraints of the number of memory banks, VAbM technique use variable analysis results to perform allocating and assigning on-chip RAM into multiple banks, which have different size with different number of word lines and different number of bit lines tailored to each application requirements. Experimental results with several real embedded applications demonstrate significant energy reduction up to 64.8% over monolithic memory, and 27.7% compared to memory designed by banking technique.
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Keyword(in English) Low-Energy / Memory Allocation and Assignment / Variable Analysis
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Title (in English) Low-Energy Memory Allocation and Assignment Based on Variable Analysis for Application-Specific Systems
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Keyword(1) Low-Energy
Keyword(2) Memory Allocation and Assignment
Keyword(3) Variable Analysis
1st Author's Name Yun CAO
1st Author's Affiliation Department of computer Science and Communication Engineering Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering Kyushu University()
2nd Author's Name Takanori OKUMA
2nd Author's Affiliation Department of computer Science and Communication Engineering Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering Kyushu University
3rd Author's Name Hiroto YASUURA
3rd Author's Affiliation Department of computer Science and Communication Engineering Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering Kyushu University
Date 2002/2/28
Paper # ICD2001-225
Volume (vol) vol.101
Number (no) 696
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 8
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