A Hardware/Software Co-reconfigurable Multimedia Architecture

The hardware/software co-reconfiguration technique is introduced to design a reconfigurable multimedia architecture that does not employ field-programmable devices. This co-reconfiguration technique does not require modifying existing compilers to retarget their new multimedia processors. This technique allows software developers to rapidly retarget their multimedia processors. In order to present the reconfiguration procedures and performance evaluations of the technique, a smart instruction decoder for Texas Instruments OMAP2420 was implemented and optimized