An Embedded Support Vector Machine

In this paper we work on the balance between hardware and software implementation of a machine learning algorithm, which belongs to the area of statistical learning theory. We use system-on-chip technology to demonstrate the potential usefulness of moving the critical sections of an algorithm into HW: the so-called hardware/software balance. Our experiments show that the approach can achieve speedups using a complex machine learning algorithm called a support vector machine. The experiments are conducted on a real-time Java Virtual Machine named Java Optimized Processor.