Wires on Demand: Run-Time Communication Synthesis for Reconfigurable Computing

P. Athanas, J. Bowen, T. Dunham, C. Patterson, J. Rice, M. Shelburne, J. Suris, M. Bucciero, J. Graf
2007 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications  
In systems typified by software defined radio, existing flows for run-time FPGA reconfiguration limit resource efficiency when constructing a variety of datapaths. Our approach allocates a sandbox region in which modules from a library can be flexibly placed and interconnected. An efficient run-time framework makes use of lightweight placement and routing techniques to respond on-demand to application requests. Compile time tools automate the task of adding interface wrappers to modules, insulating the designer from reconfiguration details.
doi:10.1109/fpl.2007.4380705 dblp:conf/fpl/AthanasBDPRSSBG07 fatcat:qszz4xuwanb6xpzoxnq5rgui6a