Real-time systems often use SPM instead of cache, because SPM allows a program¡¦s run time to be more predictable. Real-time system need predictable runtimes, because they must schedule programs to finish within specific deadlines. A deadline should be larger than its program¡¦s worst-case execution time (WCET).
Our laboratory is conducting ongoing research into scratchpad memory allocation (SPM) for reducing the WCET of a program. Compared to our previous work, this current thesis improves our memory model, our allocation algorithms, our real-time support, and our measurement benchmarks and platform.
Our key accomplishments in this paper are to: 1) add, for the first time in the literature, true WCETmeas analysis to an SPM allocator, 2) to modestly improve the performance of our previous allocator, and 3) to greatly increase the applicability over that allocator, by extending the method to support recursive programs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0916110-161012 |
| Date | 16 September 2010 |
| Creators | Bai, Jia-yu |
| Contributors | Chung-nan Lee, Steve W.Haga, Ming-chao Chiang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0916110-161012 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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