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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2010
Satoshi Yokoya, Nice, FR;
Philippe Gentric, La Colle sur Loup, FR;
Alain Michel Breton, Saint Paul, FR;
Steven Charles Goss, Antibes, FR;
Steven Richard Jahnke, Allen, TX (US);
Satoshi Yokoya, Nice, FR;
Philippe Gentric, La Colle sur Loup, FR;
Alain Michel Breton, Saint Paul, FR;
Steven Charles Goss, Antibes, FR;
Steven Richard Jahnke, Allen, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
In a digital system with a processor coupled to a paged memory system, the memory system may be dynamically configured using a memory compaction manager in order to allow portions of the memory to be placed in a low power mode. As applications are executed by the processor, program instructions are copied from a non-volatile memory coupled to the processor into pages of the paged memory system under control of an operating system. Pages in the paged memory system that are not being used by the processor are periodically identified. The paged memory system is compacted by copying pages that are being used by the processor from a second region of the paged memory into a first region of the paged memory. The second region may be placed in a low power mode when it contains no pages that are being used by the processor.