What next? A hardware operating system?

Abstract

Presented in this paper is a run-time partial reconfiguration environment called a hardware operating system (HOS). It primarily functions as an OS executing concurrent hardware blocks instead of conventional sequential processes. HOSes are composed of four major layers: application, architectural, bridging and physical. Each is presented in view of their functionality and implementation details. Results of the current realization as well as novelties of the entire system are also presented in this writing.