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Compiler-directed scratchpad memory management via graph coloring
Scratchpad memory (SPM), a fast on-chip SRAM managed by software, is widely used in embedded systems. This article introduces a general-purpose compiler approach, called memory coloring, to assign static data aggregates, such as arrays and structs, in a ...
Checkpoint allocation and release
Out-of-order speculative processors need a bookkeeping method to recover from incorrect speculation. In recent years, several microarchitectures that employ checkpoints have been proposed, either extending the reorder buffer or entirely replacing it. ...
Tetris-XL: A performance-driven spill reduction technique for embedded VLIW processors
As technology has advanced, the application space of Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors has grown to include a variety of embedded platforms. Due to cost and power consumption constraints, many embedded VLIW processors contain limited ...
Exploring the limits of early register release: Exploiting compiler analysis
Register pressure in modern superscalar processors can be reduced by releasing registers early and by copying their contents to cheap back-up storage. This article quantifies the potential benefits of register occupancy reduction and shows that existing ...
