
Chapter 9
Energy-Efficient Memory Port
Assignment
Preeti Ranjan Panda
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Lakshmikantam Chitturi
Zoran Corp., Sunnyvale, California
Contents
9.1 Introduction ..........................................................282
9.2 Background ...........................................................283
9.3 Illustrative Examples .................................................284
9.3.1 Analysis .......................................................288
9.4 Memory Energy-Aware Synthesis ....................................289
9.4.1 Coloring of memory access nodes .............................290
9.4.2 Scheduling memory ...