ReconOS in a Nutshell ///////////////////// ReconOS is a programming model, an execution environment, an operating system extension, a hardware architecture, a research project, and a development playground. Originally developed within the context of a university research project and a PhD thesis, ReconOS is a way to bring some of the convenience of a software-like programming model to the detail-ridden world of dynamically reconfigurable hardware design. With ReconOS, you can model a concurrent application for reconfigurable systems-on-chip (rSoC) using both software and hardware threads. The interactions between all threads are handled through common POSIX-like abstractions such as mailboxes, semaphores, or shared memory, hiding the complexities of bus access protocols, memory spaces, register files and interrupt handling. Getting Started: ReconOS is under continuous development and is being used in several research projects with both academic and industrial partners. We welcome all forms of contribution and are actively seeking users and developers interested in integrating reconfigurable logic and software-based operating systems. For guides and other resources pertaining to the use and/or development of ReconOS and instructions on how to download ReconOS and participate in its development, please refer to our development mailing list [1]. An archive is also available under [2]. The latest development version of ReconOS can be retrieved through Git via git clone --recursive git://github.com/EPiCS/reconos.git Happy hacking! [1] http://reconos-devel.lists.reconos.de/ [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/reconos-devel@lists.reconos.de/