Hardware Acceleration for Embedded Scripting Programming Language ‘mruby/c’

Abstract

In this paper, we propose hardware acceleration to improve a performance of scripting programming languages for embedded developments. Scripting programming languages enable more efficient software developments and scripting programming languages are used in several system developments such as IoT developments. However, scripting programming languages are an interpreted language and the program is executed by a virtual machine, so it takes a long time to execute. Therefore, we implemented hardware acceleration for scripting programming language “mruby/c” targeting small embedded devices. The hardware acceleration supports bottleneck processing of a virtual machine of mruby/c, execution speeds are improved. This paper describes the configuration of the hardware acceleration for mruby/c and the performance evaluation.