Since modern programmable devices contain embedded memory blocks, there exists a possibility to implement Finite State Machines (FSM) using such blocks. The size of the memory available in programmable devices is limited, though. The paper presents a general method for the synthesis of sequential circuits using embedded memory blocks. The method is based on the serial decomposition concept and ...

Electronic embedded systems designers aim at finding a tradeoff between cost and power consumption. As cache memory management has been shown to have a significant impact on power consumption, this paper addresses dynamic memory allocation for embedded systems with a special emphasis on time performance. In this work, time is split into time intervals, into which the application to be implement...

This paper aims to increase the memory system utilization of embedded applications. An approach is presented that inserts compression and decompression calls in the application code to reduce maximum and average memory space consumption. Memory space occupancy indicates the memory space occupied by application data at each point during the course of execution. There are two metrics associated w...

Today’s feature-rich multimedia products require embedded system solution with complex System-on-Chip (SoC) to meet market expectations of high performance at low cost and lower energy consumption. SoCs are complex designs with multiple embedded processors, memory subsystems, and application specific peripherals. The memory architecture of embedded SoCs strongly influences the area, power and p...

Ab8t~ac t In this paper, we propose a new built-in selfdiagnosis (BISD) method to simultoneoualy diagnose and repair spatially distributed memory modules with different sizes. Based on the serial interfacing technique, the serial fault masking effect is observed and a bi-directional serial interfacing technique is proposed to deal with such an issue. B y tolerating redundant read/write operatio...

The behavior of many algorithms is heavily determined by the input data. Furthermore, this often means that multiple and completely different execution paths can be followed, also internal data usage and handling is frequently quite different. Therefore, static compile time memory allocation is not efficient, especially on embedded systems where memory is a scarce resource, and dynamic memory m...

In the foreseeable future, System-on-Chip design will suffer from the problem of low yield especially in embedded memories. This can be a critical problem in a multimedia application like H.264 since it needs a huge amount of embedded memory. Existing approaches to solve this problem are not feasible given the higher memory defect density rates in technologies below 90 nm. In this paper, we pre...