Reconfigurable Platform with Polymorphic Digital Gates and Partial Reconfiguration Feature

Nowadays, there can be identified at ease a number of significant areas based on a conventional digital circuitry, such as evolvable or adaptive hardware, fault-tolerant architectures, reconfigurable systems or circuit development, where the introduction of partial reconfiguration principles may bring significant benefits with respect to traditional approaches. In case of polymorphic digital circuits (polymorphic digital circuit is able to perform more than one intended function, it typically has one stable structure for all required functions and the actually performed function or mode depends on a state of an environment) only one small-scale solution has been reported so far - the REPOMO. In this paper, main attention is given to the proposal of an innovative approach with increased flexibility, where the resulting capabilities are demonstrated.