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New embedded systems will feature more and more multimedia applications. In most multimedia applications, the dominant cost factor is related to organization of the memory architecture. One of the primary challenges in embedded system design is designing the memory hierarchy and restructuring the application to take advantage of it. Although in the past there has been extensive prior research on optimizing a system in terms of power or performance, this is, perhaps, the first technique that takes into consideration data reuse and limited lifetime of the arrays of a data dominated application, and performs a thorough exploration for different on-chip memory sizes, presenting not a single optimum, but a number of optimum implementations. We have developed a prototype tool that performs an automatic exploration and discovers all the performance, power consumption and on-chip memory size tradeoffs, which has been tested successfully on five applications.
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Dasygenis, M., Brockmeyer, E., Durinck, B., Catthoor, F., Soudris, D., Thanailakis, A. (2004). Power, Performance and Area Exploration for Data Memory Assignment of Multimedia Applications. In: Pimentel, A.D., Vassiliadis, S. (eds) Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. SAMOS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3133. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27776-7_55
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