Custom Memory Management Methodology

This book grants the reader a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in system-level memory management (data transfer and storage) related issues for complex data-dominated real-time signal and data processing applications. The authors introduce their own system-level data transfer and storage exploration methodology for data-dominated video applications. This methodology tackles the power and area reduction cost components in the architecture for this target domain, namely the system-level busses and the background memories. For the most critical tasks in the methodology, prototype tools have been developed to reduce the design time. The approach is also very heavily application-driven which is illustrated by several realistic demonstrators, partly used as red-thread examples in the book. The quite general applicability and effectiveness has been substantiated for several industrial data-dominated applications, including H.263 video conferencing decoding and medical computer tomography (CT) back projection.
To the researcher the book will serve as an excellent reference source, both for the overall description of the methodology and for the detailed descriptions of the system-level methodologies and synthesis techniques and algorithms.
To the design engineers and CAD managers it offers an invaluable insight into the anticipated evolution of commercially available design tools as well as allowing them to utilize the book's concepts in their own research and development.

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Provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in system-level memory management (data transfer and storage) related issues for complex data-dominated real-time signal and data processing applications. Each of the six authors introduces a system-level data transfer and storage exploration methodology for data-dominated video applications. This methodology addresses the power and area reduction cost components in the architecture for the system-level busses and background memories. Several realistic demonstrators are included, and the general applicability and effectiveness has been substantiated for several industrial data-dominated applications, including H.263 video conferencing, decoding, and medical computer tomography (CT) back projection. The book is aimed at researchers, design engineers and CAD managers, and is based on research at IMEC from 1989-1997. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.