In this paper,we present a dynamic scratchpad memory allocation strategy targeting a horizontally partitioned memory subsystem for contemporary embedded processors. The memory subsystem is equipped with a memory management unit (MMU), and physically ...

Embedded systems are complex as a whole but consist of smaller independent modules minimally interacting with each other. This structure makes embedded systems amenable to compositional system design. Compositional design of real-time embedded systems ...

The next generation of embedded systems will be dominated by mobile devices, which are able to deliver communications and rich multimedia content anytime, anywhere. The major themes in these ubiquitous computing systems are applications with increased ...

While hard disk drives are the most common secondary storage devices, their high power consumption and low shock-resistance limit them as an ideal mobile storage solution. On the other hand, flash memory devices overcome the main problems of hard disk ...

In NAND flash-based storage systems, an intermediate software layer called a flash translation layer (FTL)is usually employed to hide the erase-before-write characteristics of NAND flash memory. This paper proposes a novel superblockbased FTL scheme, ...

We present a deadlock avoidance algorithm for distributed systems that guarantees liveness. Deadlock avoidance in distributed systems is a hard problem and general solutions are considered impractical due to the high communication overhead. In previous ...