The UNB-RISC16 Object File Format

Author

Tinassi D´Amato, Andre Luiz ; Ruiz, Linnyer B. ; Faustino da Silva, Anderson ; Foleiss, Juliano Henrique ; Camargo Costa, Jose ; Hubner, R.

Author_Institution

Univ. Estadual de Maringa, Maringa, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

12-16 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

189

Abstract

An object file format is the file format with the logic level closest to any hardware platform. This format is designed with the main objective of providing formatted binary machine code for execution and linkage of programs. In the case of the UNB-RISC16 processor, the object file format must provide a pattern that favors the efficiency of memory space required. This is needed because the UNB-RISC16 only has a limited size of 64KB of RAM memory. This work presents the design of a compact executable and linkable file format along with its tools for the UNB-RISC16 processor. Results show that the proposed format is able to save some space by stripping unnecessary information for embedded applications and by optimizing the linking process.

Keywords

embedded systems; file organisation; reduced instruction set computing; RAM memory; UNB-RISC16 object file format; UNB-RISC16 processor; embedded applications; executable file format; formatted binary machine code; linkable file format; linking process optimization; logic level; program execution; program linkage; Computers; Embedded systems; Hardware; Joining processes; Memory management; Random access memory; Wireless sensor networks; Object file format; UNB-RISC16; memory safe;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC), 2012 31st International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Valparaiso

ISSN

1522-4902

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2937-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCCC.2012.28

Filename

6694088