JerryScript on RIOT
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JerryScript is a lightweight JavaScript engine optimized for microcontrollers and embedded devices. It has a small memory footprint of only 3KB and implements ECMAScript 5.1. JerryScript has been ported to run on the Internet of Things (IoT) operating system RIOT, allowing JavaScript code to easily be run on microcontrollers. A demo of JerryScript running a Tetris game on an STM32F4 board using an LED matrix was shown. Future work includes further optimizations and adding debugging support to JerryScript.
JerryScript on RIOT
- 1. 1Samsung Open Source Group JerryScript on RIOT An ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things Tilmann Scheller Principal Compiler Engineer t.scheller@samsung.com Samsung Open Source Group Samsung Research UK RIOT Summit 2016 Berlin, Germany, July 15 – 16, 2016
- 2. 2Samsung Open Source Group Overview ● Introduction ● JerryScript ● Memory consumption/Performance ● JerryScript on RIOT ● Demo ● Future work ● Summary
- 3. 3Samsung Open Source Group Introduction
- 4. 4Samsung Open Source Group What is JerryScript? ● A really lightweight JavaScript engine ● Has a base footprint of ~3KB of RAM ● Optimized for microcontrollers ● Developed from scratch by Samsung ● Actively developed on GitHub ● JerryScript is an open source project released under the Apache License 2.0
- 5. 5Samsung Open Source Group Why JavaScript on microcontrollers? ● There's a huge pool of JavaScript developers ● Opens up the possibility for web developers to easily write software for embedded devices ● Performance overhead of JavaScript less of an issue for control tasks ● Increased productivity, shorter time to market ● Ability to load code dynamically over the network ● Security: Executing JavaScript code is safer than executing arbitrary native code
- 6. 6Samsung Open Source Group JerryScript
- 7. 7Samsung Open Source Group JerryScript History ● Development started in June 2014 ● Released as open source in June 2015 ● JerryScript passed 100% of the test262 conformance test suite in August 2015 ● Rewritten compact byte code implementation landed in January 2016 ● Current focus on performance optimization
- 8. 8Samsung Open Source Group JerryScript ● Heavily optimized for a low memory footprint ● Interpreter-only ● Compact object representation ● Compressed pointers ● No AST, directly creating byte code ● Compact byte code heavily optimized for low memory consumption
- 9. 9Samsung Open Source Group JerryScript Portability ● Extremely portable ● Self-contained ● Small C library ● Can run bare-metal ● Supports the STM32F4, ESP8266, Arduino 101, FRDM- K64F boards ● OS support: NuttX, Zephyr, mbed, RIOT ● Runs on Linux/macOS as well
- 10. 10Samsung Open Source Group Target hardware ● STM32F4 developer board ● Cortex-M4F clocked at 168 MHz ● 192KB of RAM ● 1MB of flash memory
- 11. 11Samsung Open Source Group JerryScript ● Written in C99 ● About 82KLOC ● Code size 156KB when compiled with GCC in LTO mode for ARM Thumb-2 ● Implements the entire ECMAScript 5.1 standard, passes 100% of the test262 conformance test suite ● C API for embedding JerryScript ● Byte code snapshot feature
- 12. 12Samsung Open Source Group Memory consumption/ Performance
- 13. 13Samsung Open Source Group SunSpider 1.0.2 - Memory consumption 3d-cube 3d-raytrace access-binary-treesl access-fannkuch access-nbody bitops-3bit-bits-in-byte bitops-bits-in-byte bitops-bitwise-and bitops-nsieve-bits controlflow-recursive crypto-aes crypto-md5 crypto-sha1 date-format-tofte date-format-xparb math-cordic math-partial-sums math-spectral-norm string-base64 string-fasta 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 36 186 38 12 11 5 5 4 139 80 57 142 92 21 21 6 5 12 139 28 138 339 160 101 106 98 97 97 207 135 180 210 169 352 147 102 101 102 267 107 JerryScript Duktape 1.5 Max RSS in KB (lower is better) Measured on a Raspberry Pi 2
- 14. 14Samsung Open Source Group SunSpider 1.0.2 - Performance 3d-cube 3d-raytrace access-binary-trees access-fannkuch access-nbody bitops-3bit-bits-in-byte bitops-bits-in-byte bitops-bitwise-and bitops-nsieve-bits controlflow-recursive crypto-aes crypto-md5 crypto-sha1 date-format-tofte date-format-xparb math-cordic math-partial-sums math-spectral-norm string-base64 string-fasta 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0.95 1.11 0.58 2.56 1.07 0.57 0.84 1.19 1.82 0.4 1.14 0.75 0.7 0.88 0.48 1.35 0.74 0.59 2.08 1.85 0.96 1.5 1.17 2.12 1.55 1.48 1.69 7.56 2.78 1.05 1.66 1.34 1.25 2.98 1.54 2.42 2.54 0.79 3.93 4.35 JerryScript Duktape 1.5 Execution time in seconds (lower is better) Measured on a Raspberry Pi 2 (-Os -flto)
- 15. 15Samsung Open Source Group JerryScript on RIOT
- 16. 16Samsung Open Source Group JerryScript on RIOT ● Ported JerryScript over to RIOT ● Without any prior knowledge of RIOT the port took only a couple of days to complete ● Running RIOT on the STM32F4 board ● Ran into issue #4488 which causes crashes when writing to the serial console ● RIOT now officially supported as a target OS in upstream JerryScript
- 17. 17Samsung Open Source Group Demo
- 18. 18Samsung Open Source Group Tetris Demo ● Implementation of the classic Tetris game ● An LED matrix is used as a display ● Written in JavaScript STM32F4 board (192KB RAM, 1MB Flash) Tetris JerryScript RIOT LED Matrix I2C Switches via GPIO
- 19. 19Samsung Open Source Group Tetris Demo
- 20. 20Samsung Open Source Group Future work
- 21. 21Samsung Open Source Group Future work ● Further performance and memory optimizations ● 1.0 release of JerryScript in the coming weeks ● Debugging support ● Memory profiling ● Support for more boards
- 22. 22Samsung Open Source Group Summary
- 23. 23Samsung Open Source Group Summary ● Significantly lowers barrier of entry for JavaScript development targeting heavily constrained embedded devices ● Speeds up development ● Active community ● More information on http://samsung.github.io/jerryscript ● Looking for bug reports and feedback
- 24. Thank you. 24Samsung Open Source Group
- 25. 25Samsung Open Source Group Contact Information: Tilmann Scheller t.scheller@samsung.com Samsung Open Source Group Samsung Research UK