Title :
A design space analysis of Java processors
Author :
El-Kharashi, M. Watheq ; Rimmer, Josh Pf ; Li, Kin E. ; Gebali, Fayez
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada
Abstract :
Architectural decisions concerning the design of Java processors are investigated, using a top-down design space tree traversal. The Java virtual machine is compared to traditional and modern processor architectures. Conclusions are drawn about the most efficient structures of stacks, caches, registers, pipelines, etc. to implement the JVM in hardware.
Keywords :
Java; program processors; software architecture; virtual machines; JVM; Java processors; Java virtual machine; architectural decisions; space analysis design; space tree traversal; Computer architecture; Coprocessors; Design methodology; Hardware; Java; Pipelines; Process design; Reduced instruction set computing; Registers; Virtual machining;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2003. PACRIM. 2003 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7978-0
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.2003.1235742
