Virtual machines, such as the Java Virtual Machine ( JVM ), can make the applications software easily portable to diverse hardware platforms.

Would it be feasible to consider a similar virtual machine model also for the HSMC architecture (see Figs. 9.2 and 9.5 ), which is intended for hard real - time systems? What advantages and disadvantages would such a scheme offer in this case?

Class discussion: What are the main challenges in developing and implementing small and temporally predictable virtual machines for embedded applications?

Figure 9.2

Figure 9.5

Task 1 Is Executed Here Clock 1 External I/O Core 1 Core 2 Memory EIU 16-bit RISC Communications Channel Core 3 Core 4 Core 5 Core 6 FPGA