WCET-driven dynamic data scratchpad management with compiler-directed prefetching

Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs

Volumn 76, Issue , 2017, Pages 241-2423

  Soliman, Muhammad R ^a   Pellizzoni, Rodolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; LLVM; Prefetching; Real time; Scratchpad

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; DATA TRANSFER; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SOFTWARE TESTING; STATIC ANALYSIS;

GENERAL-PURPOSE SYSTEMS; LLVM; PRE-FETCHING SCHEME; PREFETCHING; PROGRAM COMPILATION; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME COMMUNITY; SCRATCHPAD;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 85037726353     PISSN: 18688969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2017.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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