Apparatus and method for scratch pad memory management

摘要

Disclosed is a scratch pad memory management device and a method thereof. The scratch pad memory management device divides a scratch pad memory into a plurality of unit blocks, maintains a memory allocation table corresponding to indices of the plurality of unit blocks in a main memory, and manages the scratch pad memory.

主权项

1. A scratch pad memory management device, the device comprising:
a scratch pad memory being divided into a plurality of unit blocks; a main memory; a memory allocation table; and a memory managing unit being maintained in the main memory to manage the scratch pad memory, wherein the memory managing unit generates a memory chunk comprising at least one of the plurality of unit blocks of the scratch pad memory, and classifies the memory chunk as one of a free memory, an allocated memory, and a fixed block pool to manage the memory chunk, and wherein the memory managing unit stores, in the memory allocation table, metadata to manage the plurality of unit blocks, and wherein a size of the fixed block pool is a non-integer multiple of the unit block.