A hardware virtual machine for networked reconfiguration
Yajun Ha, Patrick R. Schaumont, Marc Engels, Serge Vernalde, F. Potargent, Luc Rijnders, Hillarie Man · 2002
Networked reconfiguration is an enabling technology for cost effective service deployment and maintenance. A hardware virtual machine to enable this networked reconfiguration is presented. An abstract FPGA model is the core of such a hardware virtual machine. Based on this abstract FPGA model, the traditional implementation flow of FPGA has been separated into two parts: the service provider's side and client's side. We show how to split the FPGA design flow to enable this networked reconfiguration and present first results in the efficiency of the byte files for a hardware virtual machine.