Accelerating Embedded WebAssembly Based on FPGA

In modern society, the utilization of WebAssembly (WASM) is steadily increasing. WASM is a standard format that allows the execution of code written in high-level languages such as C, C++, and Rust within web browsers. This enables a significant improvement in the performance of web applications. However, despite the potential of WASM, its performance is significantly degraded in resource-constrained environments, such as embedded systems. To address this issue, this study has designed and implemented a hardware architecture to accelerate the execution of WASM. The proposed WASM accelerator achieved up to 70 times performance improvement over conventional methods, thereby opening new possibilities for efficiently running WASM-based applications in embedded systems. This paper provides a detailed introduction to the architecture and implementation process of the WASM accelerator, as well as the results of its performance evaluation.