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Memory-optimized Software Synthesis from Dataflow Program Graphs with Large Size Data Samples
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- Issue Date
- 2003-05
- Publisher
- Hindawi Publishing Corporation
- Citation
- EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 2003:6, pp. 514-529, 2003
- Keywords
- software synthesis ; memory optimization ; multimedia ; dataflow
- Abstract
- In multimedia and graphics applications, data samples of nonprimitive type require significant amount of buffer memory. This
paper addresses the problem of minimizing the buffer memory requirement for such applications in embedded software synthesis
from graphical dataflow programs based on the synchronous dataflow (SDF) model with the given execution order of nodes. We
propose a memory minimization technique that separates global memory buffers from local pointer buffers: the global buffers
store live data samples and the local buffers store the pointers to the global buffer entries. The proposed algorithm reduces 67%
memory for a JPEG encoder, 40% for an H.263 encoder compared with unshared versions, and 22% compared with the previous
sharing algorithm for the H.263 encoder. Through extensive buffer sharing optimization, we believe that automatic software
synthesis from dataflow program graphs achieves the comparable code quality with the manually optimized code in terms of
memory requirement.
- ISSN
- 1110-8657
- Language
- English
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