Memory Design Techniques for Low Energy Embedded Systems centers one of the most outstanding problems in chip design for embedded application. It guides the reader through different memory organizations and technologies and it reviews the most successful strategies for optimizing them in the power and performance plane.

Preface; Giovanni de Michelli. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. 2. Application-Specific Core-Based Systems. 3. Energy Optimization of the Memory Sub-System. 4. Application-Specific Memories. 5. Application-Driven Memory Partitioning. 6. Application-Specific Code Compression. 7. Perspectives. Index.