A High-Performance Hardware-EÆcient Memory Allocation Technique and Design
Hasan Çam, Mostafa Abd‐El‐Barr, Sadiq M. Sait · Research Publication Repository of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals) · 1999
This paper presents a hardware-eÆcient memory allocation (EMA) technique designed to eliminate both internal and external fragmentation that appear in the buddy system. EMA can allocate a free memory block of any size in any part of memory. Hardware imple- mentation of EMA is introduced, but only part of its circuits is shown in the paper due to the space limita- tion. Simulation results show that EMA utilizes mem- ory space more eÆciently than the previously known techniques.