Morphware and Configware
Reiner W. Hartenstein · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
This chapter introduces morphware as the basis of a second machine paradigm, which mainly has been introduced by the discipline of embedded system design, targeting the system on chip (SoC). But more recently SoC design is adopting more and more computer science (CS) mentality and also needs the services of computer science (CS) professionals. CS is going to include the morphware paradigm in its intellectual infrastructure. The time has come to bridge the traditional hardware-software chasm. A dichotomy of two machine paradigms is the road map to upgrade CS curricula by evolution, rather than by revolution. This chapter mainly introduces morphware platforms as well as their models and architectures. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.