JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE HARDWARE FOR RISC AND CISC PROCESSORS

摘要

A hardware Java accelerator (22) is provided to implement portions of the Java virtual machine in hardware in order to accelerate the operation of the system on Java bytecodes. The Java hardware accelerator (22) preferably includes Java bytecode translation into native CPU instructions. The combination of the Java hardware accelerator and a CPU (26) provides an embedded solution which results in an inexpensive system to run Java programs for use in commercial appliances.