The Embedded Systems Week kicks off next week in Montreal, Canada. Two of my students will be giving a total of three presentations, which may be interesting for those following my work. First, Sven Goossens will be presenting his CODES+ISSS paper “A Reconfigurable Real-Time SDRAM Controller for Mixed Time-Criticality Systems” on Monday September 30 10:30 – 11:00. On Thursday October 3, approximately, 09:50 – 10:10, he will also summarize all of his work on memory controllers for mixed time-criticality systems in an invited presentation entitled “A Mixed Time-Criticality SDRAM Controller” at the Memory Architecture and Organization Workshop (MeAOW). At almost the same time, October 3 10:00 – 10:30, Davit Mirzoyan will present his paper “Throughput Analysis and Voltage-Frequency Island Partitioning for Streaming Applications under Process Variation” at the Symposium on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia). We hope to see you there!
DRAMPower v3.0 Released!
DRAMPower v3.0 has been released! The tool can now be employed with two interfaces: (1) Command traces and (2) Transaction traces (new feature). To facilitate usage of memory transaction traces, DRAMPower now includes an optional DRAM command scheduler, which dynamically schedules and logs DRAM commands, corresponding to the incoming memory transactions, as if it was connected to a memory controller. The scheduler assumes a closed-page policy, employs FCFS scheduling across transactions and uses ASAP scheduling for DRAM commands. This release also adds support for DDR4 and LPDDR3 devices and fixes minor bugs to improve the accuracy of DRAM power estimation. Click here to check it out.