Memory allocation for low-power real-time embedded microcontroller: a case study

Zhishen Zhang, Yuwen Shen, Binqi Sun, Tomasz Kloda, Marco Caccamo

Abstract: Memory allocation of instructions and data can affect the program execution speed. This paper tests various memory-intensive benchmarks under different memory allocations on a Cortex-M4-based microcontroller and solves the allocation problem using integer linear programming.