Title: Partial dynamic reconfiguration framework for FPGAs through remote access

Authors: A. Anitha; M. Madhavi Latha

Addresses: Electronics and Communication Engineering, VR Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, India ' Electronics and Communication Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

Abstract: With the advent of internet of things (IoT) and ubiquitous computing, the need for resource aware reconfiguration platform is increasing tremendously. Though a number of dynamic partial reconfiguration systems are available, they consume a significant portion of base system area in comparison with the application running on the system. Larger area requirements of reconfigurable platform cannot take the advantage of reconfigurable systems. Hence, a light weighted and flexible reconfigurable framework with remote access reconfiguration is proposed. The system occupied less than 1% of the total device resources and attained 400 MBps reconfiguration throughput. This framework can be used to any number of reconfiguration regions and is suitable for any application. The proposed framework for partial dynamic reconfiguration through remote access is tested on Virtex 5 XC5VFX70T and Virtex 6 XC6VLX240T FPGAs with 1 Gbps Ethernet link.

Keywords: dynamic partial reconfiguration; ICAP controller; remote access; system architecture; Xilinx FPGA.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPSA.2017.087179

International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture, 2017 Vol.7 No.2, pp.98 - 104

Received: 13 Dec 2016
Accepted: 31 May 2017

Published online: 06 Oct 2017 *

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