Exposing Software Defined Radio Functionality To Native Operating System Applications via Virtual Devices

摘要

Many reconfigurable platforms require that applications be writtenspecifically to take advantage of the reconfigurable hardware. In a PC-basedenvironment, this presents an undesirable constraint in that the many alreadyavailable applications cannot leverage on such hardware. Greatest benefit canonly be derived from reconfigurable devices if even native OS applications cantransparently utilize reconfigurable devices as they would normal full-fledgedhardware devices. This paper presents how Proteus Virtual Devices are used toexpose reconfigurable hardware in a transparent manner for use by typicalnative OS applications.