Ashok Halambi , Aviral Shrivastava , Nikil Dutt , and Alex Nicolau
SCOPES 2001: International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems
Abstract: Software generation for embedded systems is very complex because of the wide variety of architectural styles diverse application domains and design goals. In this paper we present a customizable retargetable compiler framework that determines the phase-ordering between transformations dynamically based on the resource availability and the program region characteristics. We present some experiments with ordering If-Conversion - a predicated execution technique, and Speculative code motion. The results indicate that flexibility in the ordering of the transformations is important while compiling for embedded systems. Our future work includes performing experiments exploring the various phase orderings and also incorporating more transformations into the EXPRESS compiler.
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Center For Embedded Computer Systems, Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine. |