NEC Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary in the United States, NEC Electronics Inc., today unveiled a new architecture for dynamically reconfigurable processor LSI solutions at the annual Microprocessor Forum. During its presentation, NEC revealed the company has successfully developed a prototype LSI solution that can be configured instantaneously to meet the dynamically changing requirements of system designs. The new class of system LSI solutions, with easily customizable specifications, is designed to address the shorter commercial life of today's systems and the time-to-market pressures faced by system designers. The new architecture, to be offered in dynamically reconfigurable processor-based application specific standard products (ASSPs) as well as intellectual property (IP) cores, is designed to support the packet processing operations of network devices, such as high-end switches and routers. The dynamically reconfigurable processor LSI devices are also designed for use in applications requiring image and signal processing.
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