Energy-Aware Memory Management for Embedded Multimedia Systems

Florin Balasa is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the American University in Cairo. A senior member of IEEE, Dr. Balasa holds two patents and is an associate editor of the International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering. He has also been a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. His research focuses on algorithms and software systems for VLSI design automation. Dhiraj K. Pradhan is a chair and professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. A fellow of ACM, IEEE, and the Japan Society of Promotion of Science, Dr. Pradhan holds two patents and has been a recipient of the Humboldt Prize and Fulbright-Flad Chair in Computer Science. For more than thirty years, his research has focused on VLSI computer-aided design and testing as well as fault-tolerant computing, computer architecture, and parallel processing.

Computer-Aided Design for the Energy Optimization in the Memory Architecture of Embedded Systems. The Power of Polyhedra. Computation of Data Storage Requirements for Affine Algorithmic Specifications. Polyhedral Techniques for Parametric Memory Requirement Estimation. Storage Allocation for Streaming-Based Register File. Optimization of the Dynamic Energy Consumption and Signal Mapping in Hierarchical Memory Organizations. Leakage Current Mechanisms and Estimation in Memories and Logic. Leakage Control in SoCs. Energy-Efficient Memory Port Assignment. Energy-Efficient Address-Generation Units and Their Design Methodology. Index.