A Fast and Efficient Hardware Technique for Memory Allocation

This paper presents a fast and efficient hardware memory allocation technique, called FEMA, to detect the existence of any free block of requested size in memory. The technique can allocate a free memory block of any number of chunks in any part of memory. The hardware algorithm which was proved more efficient by using the benchmark in [6], the gate-level design of the hardware unit and its area-time measurements versus some memory parameters are given in this paper. VHDL synthesis with FPGA implementation shows that the proposed memory allocation technique has less complicated hardware, and is faster than the known hardware techniques.