Table of Contents

1. JOP: A Java Optimized Processor for Embedded Real-Time Systems 2. JOP Research Targets 3. Overview 4. Current Praxis 5. Why Java? 6. Research Objectives 7. Java and the JVM 8. The JVM instruction set 9. Memory Areas for the JVM 10. Implementations of the JVM 11. Related Work 12. JOP Architecture 13. JOP Block Diagram 14. JVM Bytecode Issue 15. JOP Solution 16. Microcode 17. Processor Pipeline 18. Interrupts 19. An Efficient Stack Machine 20. Stack access 21. Two-Level Stack Cache 22. JVM Properties 23. Proposed Cache Solution 24. Architecture Summary 25. Simple real-time profile 26. Real-Time Specification for Java 27. RTSJ Issues 28. RTSJ Subset 29. Real-Time Profile 30. Real-Time Profile 31. Application Structure 32. Schedulable Objects 33. Scheduling 34. Memory 35. Restrictions of Java 36. Implementation 37. Low-level Functions 38. Interrupts in JOP 39. Dispatching 40. Implementation Results 41. Results 42. Size of FPGA processors 43. Application Benchmark 44. Periodic Thread Jitter 45. Context Switch 46. Applications 47. JOP in Research 48. JOP for Teaching 49. Contributions 50. Future Work 51. More Information