Using Reconfigurable Hardware Through Web Services in Distributed Applications

摘要

This paper proposes a simple solution to use reconfigurable hardware in the context of distributed applications. The remote access to the reconfigu-rable resources is carried out through Web Services technology. So it is possible to exploit the synergy of reconfigurable computing and distributed applica-tions. A web service has been developed to remotely use the whole functional-ity of a reconfigurable platform. An example application has been developed in order to study the advantages and drawbacks of this methodology.