PARBIT: A Tool to Transform Bitfiles to Implement Partial Reconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

Authors

Edson L. Horta, Washington University in St Louis
John W. Lockwood, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

2001-01-01

Filename

WUCS-01-13.PDF

Technical Report Number

WUCS-01-13

Abstract

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can be partially reconfigured to implement Dynamically loadable Hardware Plugin (DHP) modules. A tool called PARBIT has been developed that transforms FPGA configuration bitfiles to enable DHP modules. 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. One or more DHPs, with different sizes can be implemented using PARBIT.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7T43R9B

Recommended Citation

Horta, Edson L. and Lockwood, John W., "PARBIT: A Tool to Transform Bitfiles to Implement Partial Reconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)" Report Number: WUCS-01-13 (2001). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/255