RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DEVELOPING APPLICATION FOR DEPLOYMENT ON THE SAME

A method of developing an application for deployment on a computing system. The computing system includes a processor and a reconfigurable logic in communication with the processor for configuration thereby. The method includes programming the processor with hardware-neutral instructions in a high-level software programming language. The instructions are representative of an application configured to execute at least partially on the reconfigurable logic. The method further includes instantiating elements from a library of elements compatible with the high-level programming language; and constructing programmatically a generic data graph representative of the application to be mapped at least partially onto the reconfigurable logic. The generic data graph is expressed as streams of records flowing between operators. A computing system is also disclosed. By presenting an instruction level streaming data processing model that expresses an application as operators and data flows, the invention provide several advantages such as design portability.