<title>Object-oriented meta tools for reconfigurable architectures</title>

Abstract

A number of experimental and commercial reconfigurable architectures are designed with various objectives: random logic integration, hardware prototyping, computation accelerators, planar smart sensors or transducers etc Getting a new reconfigurable part to the final user remains a very difficult task, because there are no common tools, nor are there standard models that provides retargeting software development tools. A generic model for reconfigurable circuits has been built in three stages: full implementation of tools for a practical platform, creation of an abstract model and associated tools for arbitrary architectures ( programmable editor, geometric operations on physical modules. place and route) , descriptiontools for concrete architecture defined as a specialization of the abstract model. Main advantages and further fields of research based on this approach are: retargetable tools based on a description of the new architecture with possibility to embed new primitives, possibility of a quantitative approach in the design of new reconfigurable architectures.