IRS - A Portable Interface for Reconfigurable Systems

Author

Mehlan, Torsten ; Strunk, Jochen ; Hoefler, Torsten ; Mietke, Frank ; Rehm, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Chemnitz Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

13-17 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

187

Lastpage

191

Abstract

This work introduces the definition of a new interface for reconfigurable systems (IRS). Since modern FPGAs support dynamic and partial reconfiguration, new core modules may be configured during normal operation. User applications are expected to benefit from the support of current FPGA hardware. To access this hardware there is a need for a well-defined interface. This paper proposes an application programming interface (API) that meets the requirements of fast hardware access, portability and ease of use. Moreover the work explains how to implement the services for a maximum of portability

Keywords

application program interfaces; field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; API; FPGA hardware; application programming interface; field programmable gate array; portable interface; reconfigurable system; user interface; Application software; Chemical technology; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Operating systems; Read-write memory; Registers; User interfaces; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2006. PAR ELEC 2006. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bialystok

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2554-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PARELEC.2006.50

Filename

1698658