An accelerator design for speedup of Java execution in consumer mobile devices

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 904-919

  Yan, Lu ^a   Liang, Zheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b TURKU CENTRE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asynchronous; Energy efficient; High performance; Java accelerator; Low power; Speedup

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE; JAVA ACCELERATOR; LOW POWER; SPEEDUP;

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MOBILE DEVICES; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 70350568751     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2008.11.021     Document Type: Article

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