Embedded Devices: The Impact on Optimizing Compilers

The increasing pervasiveness and permeation of computing have created both a vision of future computing opportunities and exciting challenges. New software technologies such as software components and dynamic translation schemes are emerging to meet requirements of new applications. Diverse microprocessors, embedded systems and networks of embedded computers are being developed and envisioned that permeate our bodies and physical environment. These systems have restrictions that current systems do not have, including limitations on power, energy, communication bandwidth and memory. These systems will also be embedded in long-lived structures, making interoperability an issue. These characteristics will require radically different paradigms and solutions to the way we currently design and develop software. This talk will describe some of the applications of the systems as embedded devices become increasing smaller and more powerful. The impact on optimizing compiler technology will be discussed that addresses some of the challenges offered by these systems. Ongoing research in developing dynamic optimizations strategies will be described, including the development of models for applying optimizations that adapt to the executing code, techniques for handling the interactions of optimizations, and the monitoring of such systems.