A real-time Java virtual machine with applications in avionics

Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Armbruster, Austin ^a   Baker, Jason ^b   Cunei, Antonio ^b   Flack, Chapman ^b   Holmes, David ^c,d   Pizlo, Filip ^b   Pla, Edward ^a   Prochazka, Marek ^c,e   Vitek, Jan ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DLTeCH ^*

^d DLTeCH   (United Kingdom)

^e Telecommunication business unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avionics; Memory management; Real time Java; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SOFTWARES; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; REAL-TIME JAVA; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

AVIONICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

REAL TIME CONTROL;

EID: 38349165000     PISSN: 15399087     EISSN: 15583465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1324969.1324974     Document Type: Article

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