FPGA dynamic and partial reconfiguration: A survey of architectures, methods, and applications

K Vipin, SA Fahmy - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2018 - dl.acm.org
Dynamic and partial reconfiguration are key differentiating capabilities of field
programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). While they have been studied extensively in academic …

Modern development methods and tools for embedded reconfigurable systems: A survey

L Jóźwiak, N Nedjah, M Figueroa - Integration, 2010 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous reconfigurable systems provide drastically higher performance and lower
power consumption than traditional CPU-centric systems. Moreover, they do it at much lower …

Run-time partial reconfiguration speed investigation and architectural design space exploration

M Liu, W Kuehn, Z Lu, A Jantsch - … International Conference on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Run-time partial reconfiguration (PR) speed is significant in applications especially when
fast IP core switching is required. In this paper, we propose to use direct memory access …

Modular dynamic reconfiguration in Virtex FPGAs

P Sedcole, B Blodget, T Becker, J Anderson… - … -Computers and Digital …, 2006 - IET
Modular systems implemented on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can benefit from
being able to load and unload modules at run-time, a concept that is of much interest in the …

Dynamic and partial FPGA exploitation

J Becker, M Hubner, G Hettich… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's field programmable gate array (FPGA) architectures, like **linx's Virtex-II series,
enable partial and dynamic run-time self-reconfiguration. This feature allows the substitution …

Enhancing relocatability of partial bitstreams for run-time reconfiguration

T Becker, W Luk, PYK Cheung - 15th Annual IEEE Symposium …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a method that enhances the relocatability of partial bitstreams for
FPGA run-time reconfiguration. Reconfigurable applications usually employ partial …

Applying partial reconfiguration to networks-on-chips

T Pionteck, R Koch, C Albrecht - 2006 International Conference …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents CoNoChi, an adaptable network-on-chip for dynamically reconfigurable
hardware designs. CoNoChi is designed for taking advantage of the partial dynamic …

Deriving an NCD file from an FPGA bitstream: Methodology, architecture and evaluation

Z Ding, Q Wu, Y Zhang, L Zhu - Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper demonstrates a reverse engineering method that takes a bitstream as input and
produces an NCD (Native Circuit Description) file for a **linx FPGA chip. The work can be …

Logic chip, logic system and method for designing a logic chip

D Koch, T Streichert, C Haubelt, J Teich - US Patent 8,018,249, 2011 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A logic chip has a plurality of individually addressable resource blocks
each of the resource blocks having logic circuitry, and a communication bar extending …

A new framework to accelerate Virtex-II Pro dynamic partial self-reconfiguration

C Claus, FH Muller, J Zeppenfeld… - 2007 IEEE International …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The **linx Virtex family of FPGAs provides the ability to perform partial run-time
reconfiguration, also known as dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR). Taking this concept …