Due to the pressure of TTM and expensive mask cost, IC designers are forced to shorten design process time and try their best to increase the reusability of IPs. The reconfigurable architecture provides extremely advantages such as reducing the cost, time and complexity of design, and diminishing the difficulties for the integration on IP components. Here, for fast multimedia processing we presented a high performance on-line reconfigurable hardware platform. With it, the hardware designers can easily and efficiently design different multimedia applications into hardware, and then, easy reusing and modifications. We have verified the platform by mapping many multimedia applications into the platform, and experimental results show that the average speed up ratio is 8.29 compared with the software-only design approach.
