The Electrical Engineering Handbook

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Custom Memory Organization and Data Transfer: Architectural Issues and Exploration Methods

Francky Catthoor, Erik Brockmeyer, Koen Danckaert, Chidamber Kulkani, Lode Nachtergaele and Arnout Vandecappelle,     IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Custom Memory Components

2.2.1. General Principles and Storage Classification

2.2.2. Register Files and Local Memory Organization

2.2.3. RAM Organization

2.3. Off-Chip and Global Hierarchical Memory Organization

2.3.1. The External Data Access Bottleneck

2.3.2. Power Consumption Issues

2.3.3. Synchronization and Access Times for High-Speed Off- and On-Chip RAMs

2.3.4. High-Density Issues

2.4. Code Rewriting Techniques to Improve Data Reuse and Access Locality

2.4.1. Methodology ...