Using PARBIT to Implement Partial Run-Time Reconfigurable Systems

  • Authors:
  • Edson L. Horta;John W. Lockwood;Sérgio T. Kofuji

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FPL '02 Proceedings of the Reconfigurable Computing Is Going Mainstream, 12th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can be used to implement partial run-time reconfigurable (RTR) systems. A tool called PARBIT has been developed that transforms FPGA configuration bitstreams into partial bitstreams. With this tool it is possible to define a partial reconfigurable area inside the FPGA and download it into a specified region of the FPGA device. This paper presents PARBIT, the methodology used to design the partial RTR system, and three application examples.