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A Java Processor IP Design for Embedded SoC
(2015-03-01)
Tsai, Chun-Jen
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Kuo, Han-Wen
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Lin, Zigang
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Guo, Zi-Jing
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Wang, Jun-Fu
In this article, we present a reusable Java processor IP for application processors of embedded systems. For the Java microarchitecture, we propose a low-cost stack memory design that supports a two-fold instruction folding pipeline and a low-complexity Java exception handling hardware. We also propose a mapping between the Java dynamic class loading model and the SoC platform-based design principle so that the Java core can be encapsulated as a reusable IP. To achieve this goal, a two-level method area with two on-chip circular buffers is proposed as an interface between the RISC core and the Java core. The proposed architecture is implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA device. Experimental results show that its performance has some advantages over other Java processors and a Java VM with JIT acceleration on a PowerPC platform.