Dynamic Memory Management for Embedded Systems

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This book provides a systematic and unified methodology, including basic principles and reusable processes, for dynamic memory management (DMM) in embedded systems.  The authors describe in detail how to design and optimize the use of dynamic memory in modern, multimedia and network applications, targeting the latest generation of portable embedded systems, such as smartphones. Coverage includes a variety of design and optimization topics in electronic design automation of DMM, from high-level software optimization to microarchitecture-level hardware support.  The authors describe the design of multi-layer dynamic data structures for the final memory hierarchy layers of the target portable embedded systems and how to create a low-fragmentation, cost-efficient, dynamic memory management subsystem out of configurable components for the particular memory allocation and de-allocation patterns for each type of application.  The design methodology described in this book is based on propagating constraints among design decisions from multiple abstraction levels (both hardware and software) and customizing DMM according to application-specific data access and storage behaviors.

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InhaltsangabeIntroduction.- Analysis and Characterization of Dynamic Multimedia Applications.- Software Profiling and Analysis of Dynamic Applications.- Dynamic Data Types Optimization in Multimedia and Communication Applications.- Intermediate Variable Removal from Dynamic Applications.- Dynamic Memory Management Optimization for Multimedia Applications.- Systematic Characterization of Dynamic Memory Behavior with Software Metadata.

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