Systematic dynamic memory management design methodology for reduced memory footprint

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 465-489

  Atienza, David ^a   Mendias, Jose M ^a   Mamagkakis, Stylianos ^b   Soudris, Dimitrios ^b   Catthoor, Francky ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c imec   (Belgium)

^d IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Custom dynamic memory management; Memory management; Multimedia embedded systems; Operating systems; Reduced memory footprint

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746055691     PISSN: 10844309     EISSN: 10844309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1142155.1142165     Document Type: Article

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