Schoeberl, Martin and Korsholm, Stephan and Kalibera, Tomas and Ravn, Anders P. (2011) A Hardware Abstraction Layer in Java. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 10 (4). pp. 182-196.
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Abstract
Embedded systems use specialized hardware devices to interact with their environment, and since they have to be dependable, it is attractive to use a modern, type-safe programming language like Java to develop programs for them. Standard Java, as a platform-independent language, delegates access to devices, direct memory access, and interrupt handling to some underlying operating system or kernel, but in the embedded systems domain resources are scarce and a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) without an underlying middleware is an attractive architecture. The contribution of this article is a proposal for Java packages with hardware objects and interrupt handlers that interface to such a JVM. We provide implementations of the proposal directly in hardware, as extensions of standard interpreters, and finally with an operating system middleware. The latter solution is mainly seen as a migration path allowing Java programs to coexist with legacy system components. An important aspect of the proposal is that it is compatible with the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ).
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing |
| Depositing User: | Tomas Kalibera |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2012 09:49 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2012 09:49 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/30717 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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