Platform-Independent Methodology for Partial Reconfiguration

摘要

In this paper we present a novel methodology for partial (re-)configuration that can be used for most bitstream con- figured hardware(HW).In particular low priced and not for partial reconfiguration designed devices can be used by our technique.Furthermore,the methodology is platform independent and requires neither specialized HW synthesis tools nor a documented bitstream.We manage configuration data by extracting and compressing(sub-)module data from complete bitstreams.Experiments demonstrated that this extracted bitstreams could be compressed down by orders of the primary bitstream size for some submodules.