Enabling technologies for reconfigurable system-on-chip

Reconfigurable computing technology (RCT) has provided an alternative to conventional von-Neumann computing which is academically intriguing but of marginal commercial interest to mainstream desktop and supercomputer communities. This paper describes a number of key enabling technologies in the form of an overall design methodology which need to be developed in order to make embedded RCT an effective implementation technology. The paper also describes some first steps that our research group is making in developing these technologies.