Editing Java (programming language) (section)

=== Non-JVM ===
Some platforms offer direct hardware support for Java; there are micro controllers that can run Java bytecode in hardware instead of a software Java virtual machine,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Salcic|first1=Zoran|last2=Park|first2=Heejong|last3=Teich|first3=Jürgen|last4=Malik|first4=Avinash|last5=Nadeem|first5=Muhammad|date=2017-07-22|title=Noc-HMP: A Heterogeneous Multicore Processor for Embedded Systems Designed in SystemJ|journal=ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems |volume=22|issue=4|pages=73|doi=10.1145/3073416|s2cid=11150290|issn=1084-4309}}</ref> and some [[ARM architecture family|ARM]]-based processors could have hardware support for executing Java bytecode through their [[Jazelle]] option, though support has mostly been dropped in current implementations of ARM.