Memory Architecture Exploration for Programmable Embedded Systems

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1: Introduction. 1.1. Motivation. 1.2. Memory Architecture Exploration for Embedded Systems. 1.3. Book Organization. 2: Related Work. 2.1.High-Level Synthesis. 2.2. Cache Optimizations. 2.3. Computer Architecture. 2.4. Disk File Systems. 2.5. Heterogeneous Memory Architectures. 2.6. Summary. 3. Early Memory Size Estimation. 3.1. Motivation. 3.2. Memory Estimation Problem. 3.3. Memory Size Estimation Algorithm. 3.4. Discussion on Parallelism vs. Memory Size. 3.5. Experiments. 3.6. Related Work. 3.7. Summary. 4: Early Memory and Connectivity Architecture Exploration. 4.1 Motivation. 4.2. Access Pattern Based Memory Architecture Exploration. 4.3. Connectivity Architecture Exploration. 4.4. Discussion on Memory Architecture. 4.5. Summary and Status. 5: Memory-Aware Compilation. 5.1. Motivation. 5.2. Memory Timing Extraction for Efficient Access Modes.5.3. Memory Miss Traffic Management. 5.4. Summary. 6: Experiments. 6.1. Experimental Setup. 6.2. Results. 6.3. Summary of Experiments. 7: Conclusions. 7.1. Summary of Contributions. 7.2. Future Directions. Bibliography. References. Index.