Download or read book Fast, Efficient and Predictable Memory Accesses written by Lars Wehmeyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speed improvements in memory systems have not kept pace with the speed improvements of processors, leading to embedded systems whose performance is limited by the memory. This book presents design techniques for fast, energy-efficient and timing-predictable memory systems that achieve high performance and low energy consumption. In addition, the use of scratchpad memories significantly improves the timing predictability of the entire system, leading to tighter worst case execution time bounds.