Multi-purpose auto-programmable reconfigurable embedded system architecture

Abstract

This paper proposes a unique embedded system architecture which results in a multi-purpose, auto-programmable, reconfìgurable and power efficient embedded system. The proposed architecture involves single microcontroller along with another digital system and a low cost memory chip to perform a large number of tasks, thus eliminating the use of large number of microcontrollers, by performing tasks of all these microcontrollers alone. This architecture eliminates the use of a programmer to repeatedly program the microcontroller. It re-programs itself whenever necessary, without human intervention (auto-programmable) and can be configured to perform different set of tasks just by replacing the memory chip with another one containing a different set of programs (re-configurable).