We examine both the short-term and long-term significance of the emerging field of reconfigurable VLSI (RVLSI), and propose a new research area that results from combining RVLSI with a distribution medium such as the Internet: delivering hardware over the Net. RVLSI permits separation of intellectual property from implementation technology, which enables executable hardware to take the form of bits. While traditional VLSI ASIC designs require delivery of actual physical hardware, RVLSI enables executable application hardware to be easily delivered over the network. The significance of this capability, which will become increasingly apparent as RVLSI technology advances and global networks become ubiquitous, motivates us to open this up as a new research area. We present a number of research problems in this area, as well as our approach to constructing an integrated CAD environment for RVLSI design. 1
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