An integrated hardware/software approach for run-time scratchpad management

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 238-243

  Francesco, Poletti ^a   Marchal, Paul ^b   Atienza, David ^c   Benini, Luca ^a   Catthoor, Francky ^b   Mendias, Jose M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

AMBA AHB; DMA; Dynamic Allocation; Scratchpad

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BUFFER STORAGE; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AMBA AHB; DYNAMIC ALLOCATION; SCRATCHPAD MANAGEMENT; SCRATCHPAD MEMORY;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 4444328501     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/996566.996634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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