active reconfiguring message

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active reconfiguring message - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Active Reconfiguring Message
  
     <hardware> (ARM) An efficient mechanism which allows
     reconfiguration of the hardware logic of a system according to
     the particular data received or transmitted.
  
     In ARM each message contains extra information in a
     Reconfiguring Header in addition to the data to be
     transferred.  Upon arrival of the message the Reconfiguring
     Header is extracted, decoded and used to perform on-the-fly
     hardware reconfiguration.  As soon as the hardware has been
     reconfigured the data information of the message can be
     processed.
  
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     (1997-06-06)