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Distributed, Embedded and Real-time Java Systems

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The general Java runtime environment is resource hungry and unfriendly for real-time systems. To reduce the resource consumption of Java in embedded systems, direct hardware support of the language is a valuable option. Furthermore, an implementation of the Java virtual machine in hardware enables worst-case execution time analysis of Java programs. This chapter gives an overview of current approaches to hardware support for embedded and real-time Java.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Personal communication with Sascha Uhrig.

  2. 2.

    The similarity can be found when comparing the microcode instructions of JOP and SHAP. The microcode instructions of SHAP are described in the appendix of the technical report [307].

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    A template can be found at http://practicalembeddedjava.com/tutorials/aJileISR.html.

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Schoeberl, M. (2012). Hardware Support for Embedded Java. In: Higuera-Toledano, M., Wellings, A. (eds) Distributed, Embedded and Real-time Java Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8158-5_7

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