Abstract: Embedded  controllers, especially in  systems with real-time requirements,  are  usually  programmed  in  C.   Benefits  of  modern programming  languages such  as type  safety,  model-based development techniques and automatic memory management are not available. JamaicaVM  is  a  real-time  capable  Java  implementation,  which  is available  for  a  wide  range  of (embedded)  operating  systems  and processor   architectures.   JamaicaVM's   garbage   collector  is   a work-based  mark-and-sweep   collector  that  offers   hard  real-time guarantees.   It  is  available  for  single-core  systems  and,  more recently,  for  multi-core systems,  where  several  CPUs can  perform garbage  collection work  at the  same  time and  concurrently to  the application. Our presentation  will first  show how JamaicaVM's  garbage collection technology achieves hard  real-time guarantees for single-core systems and  will  then illustrate  how  the  core  algorithm was  adapted  to multi-core platforms.

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