Operating System Support for Difference-Based Partial Hardware Reconfiguration

Authors:
Tiago de Albuquerque Reis;Antonio Augusto Frohlich
Affiliations:
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Venue:
RSP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Difference-based partial reconfiguration, although simpler to use by not needing previous floor-planning, has its utilization encouraged only for small changes due to its unpredictable nature. This paper proposes a mechanism to avoid this problem by saving the system global state. Therefore it doesn't matter how the difference-based partial bitstream will affect the hardware configuration. This way, partially reconfigurable system-on-chip development requires less design effort.