A Boot-Manager Core for a Processor Network on FPGA
Andreas Dillier · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2016
The ActiveCells framework is a framework for simple processor network instantiation on FPGA.In ActiveCells, the program code of said processors currently has to be included into the hardware description les for the FPGA.The current tools available to change the code post-synthesis are not portable.In this thesis, a portable solution is implemented, and the framework altered, such that the processors can be initialized independently to said FPGA conguration les.The hardware description of the processors is altered in such a way to allow this post-conguration initialization.The developed system shows reasonable performance and a much better performance than currently available tools.