Hartenstein uses various terms to describe the various innovations in the design, including config-ware, flow-ware, morph-ware, and "anti-machine".
[2] The ALUs (also known as rDPUs) are used for computing a single mathematical operation, such as addition, subtraction or multiplication, and can also be used purely for routing.
[2] The CoDeX compiler maps suitable portions of the C program onto the Xputer's rDPA fabric.
These rDPUs and interconnects can be programmed after the manufacturing process by the customer/designer (hence the term "reconfigurable") so that the rDPA can perform whatever complex computation is needed.
rDPAs are structurally programmed from "config-ware" source code, compiled into pipe-networks to be mapped onto the rDPA.