Active Reconfiguring Message

hardware (ARM) An efficient mechanism which allows

reconfiguration of the hardware logic of a system according to

the particular data received or transmitted.

In ARM each message contains extra information in a

Reconfiguring Header in addition to the data to be

transferred. Upon arrival of the message the Reconfiguring

Header is extracted, decoded and used to perform on-the-fly

hardware reconfiguration. As soon as the hardware has been

reconfigured the data information of the message can be

processed.

[In what contect is this term used?]

(1997-06-06)