The Hardware Synthesis of a Java Subset
Robert Thomson, Vassilios A. Chouliaras, David J. Mulvaney · 2006
This paper describes the synthesis of digital hardware from a subset of the Java language. The use of the ANTLR parser generator enabled the rapid creation of a Java front-end. Each Java object instance corresponds to a hardware module instance, and communication between objects is achieved through a common message passing system. The synthesis system outputs RTL net lists written in VHDL