Code transformations for data transfer and storage exploration preprocessing in multimedia processors
Francky Catthoor, Koen Danckaert, Sven Wuytack, Nikil D. Dutt · IEEE Design & Test of Computers · 2001
Platform-independent source code transformations can greatly help alleviate the data-transfer and storage bottleneck. This article covers global data-flow, loop, and data-reuse-related transformations, and discusses their effect on data transfer and storage, processor partitioning, and parallelization. The data-transfer and storage bottleneck in modern processor architectures is a very important and timely problem, as discussed in another article in this issue (“Random-Access Data