The Embedded Machine
Christoph Meyer Kirsch
EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-01-1137
, 2001
http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2001/CSD-01-1137.pdf
The embedded machine is a virtual machine in the spirit of the Java virtual machine with specific extensions for embedded real-time computing on distributed platforms. The embedded machine provides an abstract platform for generating distributed code from high-level embedded programming languages. The instruction set of the embedded machine has a formal synchronous (zero-delay) semantics which provides synchronous control of scheduled computation and communication with respect to the progress of real-time and the occurrences of events. The serialization of concurrent scheduled computation and communication is defined non-deterministically which makes the embedded machine compatible with any scheduling algorithm. A program of the embedded machine determines when to schedule task invocations and message delivery but not how. A scheduling algorithm is thus a parameter of a program of the embedded machine.
BibTeX citation:
@techreport{Kirsch:CSD-01-1137, Author= {Kirsch, Christoph Meyer}, Title= {The Embedded Machine}, Year= {2001}, Month= {Mar}, Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2001/5573.html}, Number= {UCB/CSD-01-1137}, Abstract= {The embedded machine is a virtual machine in the spirit of the Java virtual machine with specific extensions for embedded real-time computing on distributed platforms. The embedded machine provides an abstract platform for generating distributed code from high-level embedded programming languages. The instruction set of the embedded machine has a formal synchronous (zero-delay) semantics which provides synchronous control of scheduled computation and communication with respect to the progress of real-time and the occurrences of events. The serialization of concurrent scheduled computation and communication is defined non-deterministically which makes the embedded machine compatible with any scheduling algorithm. A program of the embedded machine determines when to schedule task invocations and message delivery but not how. A scheduling algorithm is thus a parameter of a program of the embedded machine.}, }
EndNote citation:
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