The digital divide of computing

This presentation urges for creating more awareness of the impact of configware engineering onto embedded system development and examines the requirements of overdue CSE curricular upgrades. Because of the impact of reconfigurable computing, configware engineering has proceeded from niche to mainstream. Morphware has become an essential and indispensable ingredient in SoC (System on a Chip) design and beyond. It turns embedded system design from hardware / software co-design into configware / software co-design [1] [2] [3] [4]. This hot development, supported by the fastest growing segment of the semiconductor market [5], provides morphware [6] [7] as an alternative RAMbased “programmable” (more precisely called: “reconfigurable”) platform for parallelism avoiding the limitations of classical high performance computation [8] [9] [10] caused by the von Neumann paradigm [11] [12] [13]. The digital divide of computing determines who is qualified to take off toward new horizons in...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CF
• Authors: Reiner W. Hartenstein
• Keywords: CF 2004, Configware Engineering, Embedded System, Reconfigurable Computing