Improving data locality with loop transformations
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
MediaBench: a tool for evaluating and synthesizing multimedia and communicatons systems
MICRO 30 Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Memory bank customization and assignment in behavioral synthesis
ICCAD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
A dynamic memory management unit for embedded real-time system-on-a-chip
CASES '00 Proceedings of the 2000 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
Array allocation taking into account SDRAM characteristics
ASP-DAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
ASPLOS IX Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Hoard: a scalable memory allocator for multithreaded applications
ASPLOS IX Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Memory controller policies for DRAM power management
ISLPED '01 Proceedings of the 2001 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Hardware and Software Techniques for Controlling DRAM Power Modes
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Automatic data migration for reducing energy consumption in multi-bank memory systems
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
Energy exploration and reduction of SDRAM memory systems
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
Low-voltage memories for power-aware systems
Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Managing dynamic concurrent tasks in embedded real-time multimedia systems
Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis
Proceedings of the 1st conference on Computing frontiers
Cache coherence tradeoffs in shared-memory MPSoCs
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
Application specific memory access, reuse and reordering for SDRAM
ARC'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Reconfigurable computing: architectures, tools and applications
Analytical synthesis of bandwidth-efficient SDRAM address generators
Microprocessors & Microsystems
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Heterogeneous multi-processors platforms are an interesting option to satisfy the computational performance of dynamic multi-media applications at a reasonable energy cost. Today, almost no support exists to energy-efficiently manage the data of a multi-threaded application on these platforms. In this paper we show that the assignment of data of dynamically created/deleted tasks to the shared memory has a large impact on the energy consumption. We present two dynamic memory allocators which solve the bank assignment problem for shared multi-banked SDRAM memories. Both allocators assign the tasksý data to the available SDRAM banks such that the number of page-misses is reduced. We have measured large energy savings with these allocators compared to existing dynamic memory allocators for several task-sets based on MediaBench[5].