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[partial-reconfig] partial reconfiguration



Hi John,

I read your paper entitled, Embedded Linux as a platform for dynamically self-reconfiguring systems-on-chip” and I must say it’s very interesting! In my research group at the University of Ottawa (Canada), we are working on a reconfigurable co-processor and I’m currently using the HWICAP peripheral to Self-reconfigure the FPGA on which the Co-processor will reside. About your ucLinux driver, in one of your previous emails you say that you don’t mind sharing your ucLinux driver, do you have a website from which I can download it?

 

Furthermore, I started working on the reconfiguration of the co-processor implementation about a month ago, and currently I’m trying to create partial-bitstreams in order to test the HWICAP and I must say creating bitstream according the appnote 290 is a hassle. In your paper you mention the following:

“To implement and test our examples above, we used partial bit streams laboriously hand-created using the Xilinx FPGA Editor tool. This is partly because the modular and partial reconfiguration implementation flows are not supported for Microblaze and EDK (Embedded Development Kit) projects. We have recently successfully “modularised” the Microblaze flow, and are in the process of automating this, so that reconfigurable modules may be easily specified, and interfaced to Microblaze processor systems.” Would you be able to give me some advice on how to easily create reconfigurable modules/partial-bitstreams, any examples?

 

Thanks a bunsh,

Nizar

 

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Nizar Sakr

School of Information Technology and Engineering

University of Ottawa

800 King Edward Ave. SITE 3010

Tel: 1 (613) 562-5800 ext.2197