A Communication Architecture for Complex Runtime Reconfigurable Systems and its Implementation on Spartan-3 FPGAs

A Communication Architecture for Complex Runtime Reconfigurable Systems and its Implementation on Spartan-3 FPGAs

Abstract

In this paper, we present and analyze a sophisticated communication architecture that allows to integrate many different modules into a system by FPGA reconfiguration at runtime. Furthermore, we examine how this architecture can be implemented on low-cost Spartan-3 devices. It will be demonstrated that modules can be exchanged in a system without disturbing the communication architecture. The paper points out, that the capabilities of Spartan-3 FPGAs are sufficient to build complex reconfigurable systems.

Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{fpga09koch,
        AUTHOR             = {{Koch}, {Dirk} and {Beckhoff}, {Christian} and Teich, J\\\"{u}rgen},
        ADDRESS            = {{Monterey, California, USA}},
        BOOKTITLE          = {{Proceedings of the 17th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA 2009)}},
        PUBLISHER          = {ACM},
        MONTH              = feb,
        PAGES              = {233--236},
        TITLE              = {{A Communication Architecture for Complex Runtime Reconfigurable Systems and its Implementation on Spartan-3 FPGAs}},
        YEAR               = {2009}
}