Reconfigurable Computing Reconfigures How We Compute

The era of reprogrammable hardware is upon us.  And it’s quietly becoming big business.  To keep you up to date on this hot high-tech movement, the Trends research staff has ferreted out the latest developments in this revolutionary field.

With traditional computing chips, the tedious process of design and fabrication can take months or even years.  And once it’s done, that chip can never do anything other than what it was designed to do.  Moreover, because it’s expected to perform so many different applicatio.....