This is the main source code and documentation repository for ReconOS http://www.reconos.de.

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.

Copyright (C) 2006-2010 The ReconOS Project and contributors (see AUTHORS). Computer Engineering Group, University of Paderborn, Germany

All rights reserved.

Except where otherwise indicated, ReconOS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

ReconOS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with ReconOS (in the file COPYING). If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Parts of ReconOS which are not distributed under the terms of the GPL have their own COPYING file in the respective subdirectory. Examples are the eCos source code and its ReconOS extensions, which fall under a modified GPL variant.

If you would like to use ReconOS under a different license, please contact license@reconos.de.

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 http://www.reconos.de/. There you will also find information on how to contact the ReconOS community through e-Mail, mailing lists and other means of communication.

attic/    defunct, but potentially useful code (e.g. layout editor)

core/     core ReconOS functions, such as hardware modules, OS integration,
          command definitions, and FPGA definitions

demos/    demonstration projects, tutorials

doc/      documentation sources (users guide), source header templates

support/  code templates, sample threads, reference designs

tests/    automated tests and benchmarks

tools/    build tool chain and other scripts (impact download, unlock etc.)

• luebbers, 10.08.2010