Reconfigurable Computing

The term Reconfigurable computing refers to the field of reconfigurable computing systems and their applications.

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This is to computing systems that can be programmed in their structure, such as on the basis of FPGAs - in contrast to conventional Von Neumann computers, the instruction streams can be programmed as a timing (Instruction Scheduling). See in the picture: Nick Trede Nicks publicized around 1995 classification scheme for computer - paradigms.

In reconfigurable platforms distinction is made between fine-grained reconfigurable as in FPGAs with only 1 bit wide programmable logic blocks ( CLBs ) and coarse-grained reconfigurable with word - wide ( eg, 32 bits) reconfigurable data paths ( rDPU: reconfigurable data path unit), which is almost the main processor of a computer are similar, but do not include a program counter.