Reconngurable Processor Board

The concept of dynamic recon gurability combines advantages of hardware and software. The goal is to make use of the structural advantages of hardware without losing the exibility of software. In this paper we present a recon gurable processor board which is based on the concept of dynamic recon gurability. We emphasize on the dynamic recon gurability of the system and the multi-chip module (MCM) that is used as processing element. To optimize the dynamic recon gurability of the system, the architecture of the processor board contains dedicated hardware structures. Thus, recon guration overhead, that limits performance enourmously, has been reduced to a minimum. As processing element the so called FPGA-MCM is used. This MCM combines a eld programmable gate array (FPGA) with plenty of memory capacity, which makes it suitable for use in recon gurable systems.