Title :
Design of a reusable memory management system
Author :
Agun, Kugan S. ; Chang, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA
fDate :
6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Presents a design and implementation of active memory manager unit (AMMU) which can be embedded into system-on-chip CPUs. The unit is implemented using VHDL in field programmable gate array (FPGA). The modified buddy system is used as the hardware algorithm for memory management. RISC compatible open-source CPU is deployed with the memory management unit to demonstrate the feasibility of implementation. The results indicate that the proposed AMMU achieves high performance in memory allocation and deallocation for software systems
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; microprocessor chips; reduced instruction set computing; storage management; FPGA; RISC compatible open-source CPU; VHDL; active memory manager unit; hardware algorithm; memory allocation; memory deallocation; modified buddy system; reusable memory management system; system-on-chip CPUs; Application software; Computer science; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware design languages; Intellectual property; Memory management; Microprocessors; Open source software; Reduced instruction set computing; System-on-a-chip;
Conference_Titel :
ASIC/SOC Conference, 2001. Proceedings. 14th Annual IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6741-3
DOI :
10.1109/ASIC.2001.954729
