Reconfigurable architecture 15 a hardware that can be configured dynamically to fit appliCation ' 5 need . 1 t 15 expected to provide high performance , low cost and good hardware utilization . This paper describes RAW a rchitecture , the reconfigurable architecture proposed by MIT , and its application on video processing Using RAW as an example , issues of applying reconfigurable architecture for video processing are addressed and some perspectives are given .