Title
An Infrastructure for Hardware-Software Co-Design of Embedded Real-Time Java Applications
Abstract
The partitioning of applications into hardware and software is an important issue in embedded systems, opening room for high level specifications as well as the exploration of different implementation strategies. This paper presents a software architecture to specify threads in hardware in the context of the Real Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) standard. There is a Java class that encapsulates hardware components, providing an abstraction layer to the application developer. Below this Java class, a wrapper hardware component provides a standard interface between RTSJ-based software components and the hardware that implements the thread behavior. This approach provides a high flexibility in choosing either a hardware or software implementation, allowing to postpone hardware/software partitioning to the very end of system development. The paper includes some quantitative data from an example containing hardware and software threads. While both implementations are compatible with the rest of the application from an interface point-of-view, they lead to very different timing and area results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ISORC.2008.39
ISORC
Keywords
Field
DocType
application developer,hardware-software co-design,software implementation,different timing,different implementation strategy,wrapper hardware component,java class,rtsj-based software component,encapsulates hardware component,software architecture,software thread,real-time java applications,application software,distributed computing,application development,java,hardware,embedded systems,educational technology,embedded system,formal specification,middleware,real time java,co design,real time systems,software component
Hardware compatibility list,Computer science,Java concurrency,Real time Java,Real-time computing,Hardware acceleration,Component-based software engineering,Open source hardware,Operating system,Hardware architecture,Interface (computing)
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.45
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elias Teodoro Silva Jr.1434.42
David Andrews281.00
Carlos Eduardo Pereira338461.55
Flávio Rech Wagner438059.82