Dynamic management of scratch-pad memory space
Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
IXP-1200 Programming
An optimal memory allocation scheme for scratch-pad-based embedded systems
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
Scratchpad memory: design alternative for cache on-chip memory in embedded systems
Proceedings of the tenth international symposium on Hardware/software codesign
Compiler-decided dynamic memory allocation for scratch-pad based embedded systems
Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Compilers, architecture and synthesis for embedded systems
Memory allocation for embedded systems with a compile-time-unknown scratch-pad size
Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Compilers, architectures and synthesis for embedded systems
Exploring the limits of leakage power reduction in caches
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
Data partitioning for maximal scratchpad usage
ASP-DAC '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
A dynamic code placement technique for scratchpad memory using postpass optimization
CASES '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Compilers, architecture and synthesis for embedded systems
Dynamic data scratchpad memory management for a memory subsystem with an MMU
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED conference on Languages, compilers, and tools for embedded systems
A novel technique to use scratch-pad memory for stack management
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Recursive function data allocation to scratch-pad memory
CASES '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
SDRM: simultaneous determination of regions and function-to-region mapping for scratchpad memories
HiPC'08 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on High performance computing
SSDM: smart stack data management for software managed multicores (SMMs)
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Design Automation Conference
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A dynamic scratch pad memory (SPM) management scheme for program stack data with the objective of processor power reduction is presented. Basic technique does not need the SPM size at compile time, does not mandate any hardware changes, does not need profile information, and seamlessly integrates support for recursive functions. Stack frames are managed using a software SPM manager, integrated into the application binary, and shows average energy savings of 32% along with a performance improvement of 13%, on benchmarks from MiBench. SPM management can be further optimized and made pointer safe, by knowing the SPM size.