picoJava

The picoJava - microprocessor from Sun Microsystems is a Java processor , so it can Java - bytecode directly execute. As a result, when executing Java bytecode, it reaches about twenty times the speed of an Intel processor with a current JVM . It is based on SPARC technology and exists in two different versions, both of which are available as an IP core . It can execute code compiled from C and C ++ just as quickly as other RISC processors.

application

• Internet application
• Set-top boxes
• Communication technologies

Licensee

Licensees of the technology include:

• IBM
• NEC
• Fujitsu

Web links

• picoJava main page at Sun ( Memento from August 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• picoJava overview at Sun ( Memento from August 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)