A field-customizable and runtime-adaptable microarchitecture

This paper introduces our on-going project, titled Study on Hardware/Software Adaptable Microprocessors. The goal of the project is to investigate dynamically adaptable microprocessors that utilize dynamic profile information. In this architecture, microprocessor hardware itself is not reconfigured. Instead, software, which consists of law control signals, is dynamically optimized, resulting in virtual reconfiguration of the hardware. This adaptability will provide us low-power and high-performance embedded processors.