Automated exploration of pareto-optimal configurations in parameterized dynamic memory allocation for embedded systems

Authors:
Stylianos Mamagkakis;David Atienza;Christophe Poucet;Francky Catthoor;Dimitrios Soudris;Jose M. Mendias
Affiliations:
VLSI Center-Democritus Univ., Xanthi, Greece;LSI/EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;IMEC vzw, Kapeldreef, Heverlee, Belgium;IMEC vzw, Kapeldreef, Heverlee, Belgium;VLSI Center-Democritus Univ., Xanthi, Greece;DACYA/UCM, Juan del Rosal, Madrid, Spain
Venue:
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Proceedings
Year:
2006

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Abstract

New applications in embedded systems are becoming increasingly dynamic. In addition to increased dynamism, they have massive data storage needs. Therefore, they rely heavily on dynamic, run-time memory allocation. The design and configuration of a dynamic memory allocation subsystem requires a big design effort, without always achieving the desired results. In this paper, we propose a fully automated exploration of dynamic memory allocation configurations. These configurations are fine tuned to the specific needs of applications with the use of a number of parameters. We assess the effectiveness of the proposed approach in two representative real-life case studies of the multimedia and wireless network domains and show up to 76% decrease in memory accesses and 66% decrease in memory footprint within the Pareto-optimal trade-off space.