Design and Implementation of Software Objects in Hardware

This paper proposes a novel approach to implement software object in hardware. Data-Memory mapping schemes are investigated and four hardware object design schemes are proposed and implemented on a CAD tool. Performance evaluation is carried out in Altera Quartus tool in terms of speed, logic elements and number of transitions. The result of experiments shows that object-reference scheme is much better than the other 3 schemes in terms of hardware cost, energy consumption and speed for FPGA implementation. Keywords：Java software objects, hardware objects, self-timed system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICCD
• Authors: Fu-Chiung Cheng, Hung-Chi Wu
• Keywords: Altera Quartus Tool, Hardware, Hardware Objects, ICCD 2006, Object Design Schemes