Java processor
A Java processor is the implementation of the Java virtual machine in hardware. In other words, the Java bytecode that makes up the instruction set of the abstract machine becomes the instruction set of a concrete machine. These are today the most popular form of a high-level language computer architecture.Implementations
There are many Java processors available, including:
- picoJava was the first attempt by Sun Microsystems to build a Java processor
- and from aJile Systems, Inc. Available on boards from
- from Imsys Technologies. Available on boards and with wireless radios from
- is a multithreaded Java microcontroller for research on real-time scheduling
- is a research project to build an application specific Java processor
- ARM926EJ-S is an ARM processor able to run Java bytecode, this technology being named Jazelle
- Java Optimized Processor for FPGAs. A PhD thesis is
- bytecode processor from the TU Dresden
- provides hardware support for object-oriented functions
- ObjectCore is a multicore Java processor designed by Vivaja Technologies.
- Java Offload Engine is a high performance Java co-processor from Temple Computing Labs LLP.
