Estimating influence of data layout optimizations on SDRAM energy consumption

Abstract

An important problem in extracting maximum benefits from an SDRAM-based architecture is to exploit data locality at the page granularity. Frequent switches between data pages can increase memory latency and have an impact on energy consumption. In this paper, we propose a mathematical formulation, using Presburger arithmetic and Ehrhart polynomials to-estimate the number of page breaks statically (i.e., at compile time). The results obtained using video codes indicate that the proposed framework can estimate the number of page breaks with good accuracy.