Event-oriented computing with reconfigurable platform

Recently, reconfigurable computing has come under the spotlight as the new computing paradigm. A machine employing this paradigm combines the flexibility of a general purpose processor with the performance of a dedicated system. In this paper, we propose event-oriented computing, a new application area for reconfigurable computing. We also show the architecture model suited to event-oriented computing. Using artificial life as an example, we report the evaluation of our architecture model.