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A Hardware Abstraction Layer in Java

Schoeberl, Martin, Korsholm, Stephan, Kalibera, Tomas, Ravn, Anders P. (2011) A Hardware Abstraction Layer in Java. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 10 (4). pp. 182-196. (doi:10.1145/2043662.2043666) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:30717)

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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
DOI/Identification number: 10.1145/2043662.2043666
Uncontrolled keywords: determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Tomas Kalibera
Date Deposited: 21 Sep 2012 09:49 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:08 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/30717 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Kalibera, Tomas.

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