``On-par`` is not where FPGA-based systems are headed, however. FPGAs offer at least two unique levels of flexibility and capability that are, as of yet, largely untapped and unexplored in commercial applications. The first of these is the ability to make even the hardware portion of a design ``soft`` and to develop applications that reconfigure both hardware and software on-the-fly as part of normal operation. Cutting edge applications such as software-defined radio (SDR) may eventually act as the ``killer-apps`` that can uniquely be implemented with FPGA-based embedded computing platforms, because of requirements that both software and hardware be reconfigured during operation.``

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