Hardware-based memory management for system-on-chip (soc) integrated circuits that identify blocks of continuous available tokens needed to store data

Abstract

Systems and related methods are disclosed to manage memory for an integrated circuit including a processor and logic circuitry to manage the memory. The memory includes segments available for storage of data, and the processor stores data within the memory. Logic circuitry is configured to manage the memory, forms a plurality of sections within the segments, and applies tokens to the plurality of sections. Further, for each storage operation, the logic circuitry searches the tokens to identify blocks of continuous available tokens based upon data length, selects a block from the blocks identified in the search, determines a first token for the selected block, and outputs a memory address to the processor based upon the first token. The processor stores the data at the memory address. For one embodiment, the storage operations are associated with storage of data within packets received from network communications.