With the advent of the ultimate integration era, the field of system configuration technology is in need of a novel paradigm to organically unify software with hardware and enable the realization of integrated systems. In the current study, the authors demonstrate that the datadriven concept has a very high potential as the basis for this unity, presenting concrete realization examples of selftimed superpipelines for a data-driven processor and examples of the corresponding software development environment. © 2000 Scripta Technica, Syst Comp Jpn, 31(8): 8997, 2000