PARBIT: A Tool to Transform Bitfiles to Implement Partial Reconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
Edson Lemos Horta · Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis) · 2001
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can be partially reconfigured to implement Dynamically loadable Hardware Plugin (DHP) modules. A tool called PARBIT has been developed that transforms FPGA configuration bitfiles to enable DHP modules. With this tool it is possible to define a partial reconfigurable area inside the FPGA and download it into a specified region of the FPGA device. One ore more DHPs, with different sizes can be implemented using PARBIT. Supported by: NSF ANI-0096052, Xilinx Inc. and CNPq (Brazil) 1 Contents 1