Reconfigurable computing
Reconfigurable computing refers to computer processing with highly flexible computing fabrics. The principal difference when compared to using ordinary microprocessors is the ability to make substantial changes to the microcode is stored in RAM or EEPROM, and changeable on reboot or on the fly. This could be done with the AMD 2900 series bit slice processors (on reboot) and later with FPGAs (on the fly).
Some dataflow processors are implemented using reconfigurable computing.
