Static memory allocation by pointer analysis and coloring
Jianwen Zhu · 2001
Modern systems-on-chips often allocate more silicon real-estate on memory than logic. The minimization of on-chip memory becomes increasingly important for the reduc-tion of manufacturing cost. In this paper, we present a new technique that minimizes memory usage. Incoporated in a behavioral synthesis tool that synthesizes general-purpose C programs, this technique is fully automated and does not rely on users to explicitly specify dataflow information. Ex-perimental results show that significant improvements can be achieved for the benchmark set. 1