SoC SW/HW Co-Design of A Scalable Multi-Threaded JVM

• Main Authors: Yung-Chao Chen, 陳泳超
• Other Authors: Jer-Min Jou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73898344616516441541

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 電機工程學系碩博士班 === 95 === In this paper, we have designed and implemented a Multi-Threaded Java Virtual Machine (MTJVM) which is composed of multiple processing elements (PEs) and can directly execute Java threads concurrently without any software/OS support. Threads will be dynamically dispatched to PEs and run simultaneously toward Thread-Level-Parallelism (TLP). The thread processing mechanisms and instructions, such as real-time scheduling, sleep, wait, yield, and synchronization, are handled by two new global controllers, the thread-manager and the memory-manager. The complete system has been coded and synthesized in C and VHDL for its software and hardware parts, respectively. As the experiment results shown, the performance and the area of it are scalable with the number of PEs used, and it works at 96.8 MHz.