IP Design for Dynamically Reconfigurable SoCs

Reconfigurable computing is a relatively new paradigm. While there is a growing number of new reconfigurable architectures there is a lack of design tools to map applications onto these architectures. The design tools must exploit the benefits of reconfiguration in order to deploy such architectures successfully. In this paper we present some fundamental ideas on how to take advantage of reconfiguration and how to automate the design of IP that is running on architectures that can be reconfigured very fast