Informatics Report Series


Report   

EDI-INF-RR-1305


Related Pages

Report (by Number) Index
Report (by Date) Index
Author Index
Institute Index

Home
Title:Fast Source-Level Data Assignment to Dual Memory Banks
Authors: Alastair Murray ; Bjoern Franke
Date:Mar 2008
Publication Title:Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES '08)
Publication Type:Conference Paper Publication Status:Published
Page Nos:43-52
Abstract:
Due to their streaming nature memory bandwidth is critical for most digital signal processing applications. To accommodate for these bandwidth requirements digital signal processors are typically equipped with dual memory banks that enable simultaneous access to two operands if the data is partitioned appropriately. Fully automated and compiler integrated approaches to data partitioning and memory bank assignment, however, have found little acceptance by DSP software developers. This is partly due to their inflexibility and inability to cope with certain manual data pre-assignments, e.g. due to I/O constraints. In this paper we present a different and more flexible approach, namely source-level dual memory assignment where code generation targets DSP-C, a standardised C language extension widely supported by industrial C compilers for DSPs. Additionally, we present a novel partitioning algorithm based on soft colouring that is more efficient and scalable than the currently known best integer linear programming algorithm, whilst achieving competitive code quality. We have evaluated our scheme on an Analog Devices TigerSHARC DSP and achieved speedups of up to 1.57 on 13 UTDSP benchmarks.
Links To Paper
1st Link
Bibtex format
@InProceedings{EDI-INF-RR-1305,
author = { Alastair Murray and Bjoern Franke },
title = {Fast Source-Level Data Assignment to Dual Memory Banks},
book title = {Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES '08)},
year = 2008,
month = {Mar},
pages = {43-52},
url = {http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0233454/docs/murray_SCOPES08.pdf},
}


Home : Publications : Report 

Please mail <reports@inf.ed.ac.uk> with any changes or corrections.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all material is copyright The University of Edinburgh