On Static Binary Translation and Optimization for ARM-based Applications

• Main Authors: Jiunn-Yeu Chen, 陳俊宇
• Other Authors: Wuu Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64143276930334508837

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 網路工程研究所 === 96 === Binary translation is often used in migrating legacy binaries to new architecture-based platforms. This thesis describes a static binary translator which translates ARM binaries to a MIPS-like architecture designed for embedded systems. The static translator handles basic architecture translations and performs optimizations to minimize instruction overhead. The conditional execution feature in the ARM architecture requires special attention on binary translation and optimization. With several optimizations to minimize condition updates and checks, the translated code from ARM to our target architecture increases the instruction path length by only 35% on the EEMBC benchmark.