Dynamic Memory Management for Embedded Systems

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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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.

• Dynamic Memory Behavior
• Dynamic Memory Management
• Dynamic Memory Management for Multimedia and Communication
• Memory Management for Dynamic Multimedia
• Memory Management for Embedded Systems

“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)

• 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

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