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Rahel Bailie wrote:
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> Our engineers have been defining these two terms as follows:
> Configurable = The user can set the parameters once.
> Reconfigurable = The user can set the parameters numerous times.
The only context I've ever seen "reconfigurable" in is
"reconfigurable computing", building a processor out of many
smaller more flexible chips (rather than on one big chip) so
you can reconfigure it for specialised tasks. Image recognition,
signal processing, ...
This is a very active research area with some commercial work
coming along. I tried a web search on "reconfigurable". All the
hits seem to use it this way.
I'd drop the term entirely if you're doing anything else.
