self-modifying hardware?

[earlz]

Is self-modifying hardware possible? like a step-below microcode that is... a way to actually reconfigure it's own logic gates and such?

edit:
Well, that doesn't tell much.. lol
Anyway, my question is that if you had a computer add-on card of some sort intended as a co-processor... could the computer load information into that co-processor such that the computer has raw control over the co-processor hardware, such that the co-processor could be programmed to act as just about any logic circuit (within reason of the actual hardware)

[Troy Martin]

Whoa, nifty idea, probably not easily doable with today's technology though.

[Brynet-Inc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Qualit ... eration%29

There are no original ideas.

[stephenj]

Could FPGAs fit the bill?

[JamesM]

Could FPGAs fit the bill?

Given that I'm taking a course in embedded systems design using FPGAs; yes, they do fit the bill