Deterministic Java in tiny embedded systems
Nilsson, A.; Ekman, T.
Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 2001. ISORC - 2001. Proceedings. Fourth IEEE International Symposium on
Volume , Issue , 2001 Page(s):60 - 68
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ISORC.2001.922818
Summary:As embedded systems become more and more complex, and the time to
market becomes shorter, there is a need in the embedded systems
community to find better programming languages that let the programmers
develop correct code faster. The programming languages used today,
typically C and/or Assemblers, are just too error-prone. The Java
technology has therefore gained a lot of interest from developers of
embedded systems in the last few years. We propose an approach based on
compiling Java into native machine code via C as an intermediate
language. The C code generation process should also add close
interaction with a fully pre-emptive incremental garbage collector and a
small and efficient real time kernel. Tests performed on a small 8-bit
microprocessor show that it is possible to use a modern object oriented
language with automatic memory management, such as Java, and yet
generate fully predictable code that can be run in very small devices
with severe memory constraints
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