Exposing non-standard architectures to embedded software using compile-time virtualisation
University of York, York, England UK
Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems, CASES ’09, 2009
@inproceedings{gray2009exposing,
title={Exposing non-standard architectures to embedded software using compile-time virtualisation},
author={Gray, I. and Audsley, N.},
booktitle={International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES’09)},
year={2009}
}
The architectures of embedded systems are often application-specific, containing multiple heterogenous cores, non-uniform memory, on-chip networks and custom hardware elements (e.g. DSP cores). Standard programming languages do not use these many of these features natively because they assume a traditional single processor and a single logical address space abstraction that hides these architectural details. This paper describes Compile-Time Virtualisation, a technique which uses a virtualisation layer to map software onto the target architecture whilst allowing the programmer to control the virtualisation mappings in order to effectively exploit custom architectures.
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