Low power Java processor for embedded applications

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 200, Issue , 2006, Pages 213-228

  Beck, Antonio Carlos S ^a   Cairo, Luigi ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Java; Power Consumption; Stack Machines

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSIVE REDUCTION; ARCHITECTURE OPTIMIZATION; EMBEDDED APPLICATION; JAVA; JAVA PROCESSORS; LOW POWER ARCHITECTURE; PIPELINED IMPLEMENTATION; STACK MACHINES;

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33749135703     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-33403-3_14     Document Type: Article

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