A machine that is configurable has the ability to control the run time environment to suit the task being executed. Customizing the processor hardware according to the specific requirement of various applications is an extension to the idea of reconfigurability. Reconfigurable cache architecture gives us the flexibility to dynamically alter the execution logic of a processor, customized to a sp...

In this paper, the design aspects of instruction arbitration in an ρμ-coded CCM are discussed. Software considerations, architectural solutions, implementation issues and functional testing of an ρμ-code arbiter are presented. A complete design of such an arbiter is proposed and its VHDL code is synthesized for the VirtexII Pro platform FPGA of Xilinx. The functionality of the unit is verified ...

Hartej Singh, Ming-Hau Lee, Guangming Lu, Fadi J. Kurdahi, Nader Bagherzadeh, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 and Eliseu M. C. Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Abstract: This paper introduces MorphoSys, a reconfigurable computing system developed to investigate the effectiveness of combining reconfigurable hardware with general-purpose processors for word-level, co...

A new version of a special-purpose processor for running lazy functional programs is presented. This processor – the Reduceron – exploits parallel memories and dynamic analyses to increase evaluation speed, and is implemented using reconfigurable hardware. Compared to a more conventional functional language implementation targeting a standard RISC processor running on the same reconfigurable ha...

Fully customized hardware based technology provides high performance and low power consumption by specializing the tasks in hardware but lacks design flexibility since any kind of changes require re-design and re-fabrication. Software based solutions operate with software instructions due to which a great flexibility is achieved from the easy development and maintenance of the software code. Bu...

Due to the fast development of multimedia and communication applications, reconfigurable computing which has the great potential to accelerate a wide variety of applications is getting more and more important in computer architecture and software system. By mapping the computationally intense portions of an application into hardware, the application could be greatly accelerated. Reconfigurable ...

This paper discusses the design and modeling fundamentals of a multi-degree-of-freedom reconfigurable robotic gripper system (RGS), designed to automate the process of limp material handling, reliably and without distortion, deformation, and/or folding. The reconfigurable gripper design draws upon the authors' previously reported flat surfaced, fixed-dimensions gripper system [1]. The design co...

Embedded systems are application-specific computers that interact with the physical world. Reconfigurable technologies provide designers the opportunity to diminish the life-cycle in embedded system creation. The basic purpose of using reconfigurable technologies is for solving the problem of obsolescence. New emerging capabilities in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), including improvements...