``For designers that come from other backgrounds, however, reprogrammability represents a much more significant step. For these engineers, unencumbered by pre-existing mental models of an ASIC design methodology, The NRE wall isn’t merely softened or blurred. It never existed at all. High Performance Computing (HPC) experts designing reconfigurable computers, for example, view reprogrammable FPGAs as something akin to a new type of processor with built-in program memory. Their physical hardware is designed with no notion at allof a particular personalization of the FPGAs. The bitstreams that customize these devices will be created at what reconfigurable computer users would consider “compile time,” and will perhaps be dramatically different each time the machine is powered up.``

http://www.fpgajournal.com/articles_2005/20050927_reconfig.htm

So who`s processor would e.Digital be pushing designs through?

An embedded OS as e.Digital`s.....would have an ability to manage all kinds of designs.

doni