Remote dynamically reconfigurable platform using NetFPGA

Author

Tze Hon Tan ; Chia Yee Ooi ; Yuan Wen Hau ; Shaikh-Husin, N. ; Marsono, M.N.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

1-5 June 2014

Firstpage

1239

Lastpage

1242

Abstract

This paper presents a remote dynamically reconfigurable platform using NetFPGA development board. The functionalities of execution units in this platform can be updated remotely through the 1Gbps Ethernet connection without assistance from the NetFPGA host computer. This is achieved by designing custom reconfiguration controller and utilizing the Internal Configuration Access Port (ICAP) available in the reconfigurable device. Functional update is important to patch design flaws and bugs, to optimize design performance and to cope with the changing of execution unit´s functional requirement. Based on the experimental result, the implemented platform achieved roughly 241Mbps reconfiguration rate. The developed platform is suitable to be used as middlebox or wireless sensor node.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; local area networks; Ethernet; ICAP; NetFPGA development board; bit rate 1 Gbit/s; bit rate 241 Mbit/s; execution units; internal configuration access port; remote dynamically reconfigurable platform; wireless sensor node; Computer architecture; Conferences; Field programmable gate arrays; Loading; Middleboxes; Performance evaluation; Ports (Computers); ICAP; NetFPGA; Partial reconfiguration; Remote dynamic reconfiguration; Self-reconfiguration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Melbourne VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3431-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2014.6865366

Filename

6865366