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Java Processor Optimized for RTSJ

EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems volume 2007, Article number: 057575 (2007) Cite this article

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Due to the preeminent work of the real-time specification for Java (RTSJ), Java is increasingly expected to become the leading programming language in real-time systems. To provide a Java platform suitable for real-time applications, a Java processor which can execute Java bytecode is directly proposed in this paper. It provides efficient support in hardware for some mechanisms specified in the RTSJ and offers a simpler programming model through ameliorating the scoped memory of the RTSJ. The worst case execution time (WCET) of the bytecodes implemented in this processor is predictable by employing the optimization method proposed in our previous work, in which all the processing interfering predictability is handled before bytecode execution. Further advantage of this method is to make the implementation of the processor simpler and suited to a low-cost FPGA chip.

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  1. School of Information Technology, Southern Yangtze University, Wuxi, 214122, China

    Zhilei Chai & Wenbo Xu

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Shiliang Tu & Zhanglong Chen

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Chai, Z., Xu, W., Tu, S. et al. Java Processor Optimized for RTSJ. J Embedded Systems 2007, 057575 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/57575

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