Towards Garbage Collection Mechanism for RTSJ-Oriented Embedded Java Processor

Currently, Java has been gradually applied in embedded real-time area with the improvement by the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). Accordingly, a hardware Java execution engine for embedded real-time applications, JPOR-32 (32-bit Java Processor Optimized for RTSJ), is designed. Taking JPOR-3...

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Published in2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology pp. 1312 - 1316
Main Authors Guang Hu, Zhilei Chai, Wenke Zhao, Shiliang Tu
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2010
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garbage collection
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Java
Java processor
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Memory management
Real time systems
real-time Java
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Resource management
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Summary:Currently, Java has been gradually applied in embedded real-time area with the improvement by the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). Accordingly, a hardware Java execution engine for embedded real-time applications, JPOR-32 (32-bit Java Processor Optimized for RTSJ), is designed. Taking JPOR-32 for an example, this paper presents the garbage collection mechanism for RTSJ-oriented embedded processor in detail. JPOR-32 provides effective architectural support for garbage collection. And the object reference format of JPOR-32 provides supports for objects tracing and heap scanning. The support for write barrier of real-time concurrent GC is also performed. Moreover, JPOR-32 provides optimized instruction level support for garbage collection. In addition, different garbage collection algorithms are compared on the base of the resource-constrained feature and the real-time requirement of the processor, and the hybrid garbage collectors are suggested.
ISBN:1424475473
9781424475476
DOI:10.1109/CIT.2010.236