Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware for Object-Oriented Processing

The focus of this paper is to establish a link of dynamic structures as found in software-based systems function descriptions to hardware implementations. Specific properties of object-oriented software methodologies and partially reconfigurable FPGAs are first analyzed. Then, both a reconfigurable processing unit and an approach how to map object classes to such execution units are elaborated. The feasibility of the proposed mapping method is demonstrated for some application examples.