HARDWARE RECONFIGURATION OF A SOC

Abstract

The continuous advance of science often leaves behind devices, and makes their usage obsolete. This can be observed, for example, in the medical domain, where the performance of devices achieved tremendous capabilities, or in the latest increase of power of computing: today's top-ranked smartphones are comparable in performance with the best desktop computers of the previous decade. Therefore, significant research efforts are directed at the reusability of current technologies by updating them according to new discoveries. Among the existing solutions for device reusability, there are two concepts which are highly ranked: the usage of system-on-chip devices and partial reconfigurability implementation. This paper analyzes the benefits of using these solutions both independently and combined.