Title :
Multi-access integrated memory management for deeply pipelined processors
Author :
Nasibi, O. ; Nourani, M. ; Fakhraie, M. ; Dezfoli, A.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tehran Univ., Iran
Abstract :
In processors with deeply pipelined architecture and numerous buses, management of memory is an important issue. In these processors, each stage of the pipeline might act separately from others, and thus they might have concurrent memory requests. In this paper, we introduce a new method to manage different memory types with multiple sectors in these processors. This method will reduce possible memory conflicts to a minimum and improves performance without using multi-port memory.
Keywords :
digital signal processing chips; integrated circuit modelling; integrated memory circuits; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; storage management; DSP; buses; concurrent memory requests; deeply pipelined architecture; deeply pipelined processors; memory conflicts; memory management; memory performance; memory types; multi-access integrated memory management; multi-port memory; multiple processor sectors; pipeline stages; Circuits; Communication industry; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processing chips; Instruments; Laboratories; Memory management; Pipelines; Read-write memory; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics, 1999. ICM '99. The Eleventh International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6643-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICM.2000.884860