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Java to hardware compilation for non data flow applications

Andersson, Per LU and Kuchcinski, Krzysztof LU orcid (2005) DSD'2005: 8th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design 2005. p.330-337
Abstract
Java has proven to he a powerful language for software development. In this paper we show that it is also suitable for hardware compilation, making it an attractive language for embedded system development. Our compilation technique, which is presented here, is based on separating different aspects of the program and use dedicated and specialised optimisations and code generators for each aspect. In this paper we focus on efficient implementation of random memory accesses, i.e. reference intensive tasks, such as graph traversal. We show that for these tasks the hardware generated by our compiler is up to 1.8 times faster than a software implementation. We also show how recursive algorithms can be mapped to hardware using our tool.
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Graph traversal, Hardware compilation, Reference intensive tasks, Software implementation
host publication
Proceedings - DSD'2005: 8th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design - Architectures, Methods and Tools
volume
2005
pages
330 - 337
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
conference name
DSD'2005: 8th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design
conference location
Porto, Portugal
conference dates
2005-08-30 - 2005-09-03
external identifiers
  • wos:000232302700053
  • scopus:33845316909
DOI
10.1109/DSD.2005.53
language
English
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4ebbe8e8-6ec8-46b6-abc7-bc933a59163c (old id 615551)
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  abstract     = {{Java has proven to he a powerful language for software development. In this paper we show that it is also suitable for hardware compilation, making it an attractive language for embedded system development. Our compilation technique, which is presented here, is based on separating different aspects of the program and use dedicated and specialised optimisations and code generators for each aspect. In this paper we focus on efficient implementation of random memory accesses, i.e. reference intensive tasks, such as graph traversal. We show that for these tasks the hardware generated by our compiler is up to 1.8 times faster than a software implementation. We also show how recursive algorithms can be mapped to hardware using our tool.}},
  author       = {{Andersson, Per and Kuchcinski, Krzysztof}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings - DSD'2005: 8th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design - Architectures, Methods and Tools}},
  keywords     = {{Graph traversal; Hardware compilation; Reference intensive tasks; Software implementation}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{330--337}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{Java to hardware compilation for non data flow applications}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DSD.2005.53}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/DSD.2005.53}},
  volume       = {{2005}},
  year         = {{2005}},
}