標題: A Java Processor IP Design for Embedded SoC
作者: Tsai, Chun-Jen
Kuo, Han-Wen
Lin, Zigang
Guo, Zi-Jing
Wang, Jun-Fu
資訊工程學系
Department of Computer Science
關鍵字: Design;Experimentation;Performance;Java accelerator;application processor SoC;dynamic class loading;embedded systems
公開日期: 1-Mar-2015
摘要: 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.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2629649
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/124526
ISSN: 1539-9087
DOI: 10.1145/2629649
期刊: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON EMBEDDED COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Volume: 14
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