Speaker: Dr John Williams
When: 1:00PM Thursday 1st April 2004
Venue: 78-344
Abstract:
Modern FPGAs have the capability to be dynamically and partially reconfigured at runtime. Further, some devices can internally initiate and control this reconfiguration process, leading to self-reconfiguring systems. This creates the notion of virtual hardware (analogous to virtual memory), whereby new hardware modules may be dynamically swapped in and out of FPGA-based system. We describe our approach to building tools for the implementation of these systems, and show that embedded Linux is a natural and powerful platform on which to build these tools. We present examples and demonstrations that show how complex operations such as obtaining partial bit streams from remote servers and initiating reconfiguration are achieved with a single line of Linux shell script.
Contact: Dr Peter Sutton
Click here for more resources for this seminar