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In this paper we present a networked lightweight and partially reconfigurable platform assisted by a remote bitstreams server. We propose a software and hardware architecture as well as a new data-link level network protocol implementation dedicated to dynamic and partial reconfiguration of FPGAs. It requires a network controller and much less external memories to store reconfiguration software, bitstreams and buffer pools used by standard communication protocols. Our measures, based on a real implementation, show that our system can download remote bistreams with a reconfiguration speed ten times faster than known solutions.
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Bomel, P., Gogniat, G., Diguet, JP. (2008). A Networked, Lightweight and Partially Reconfigurable Platform. In: Woods, R., Compton, K., Bouganis, C., Diniz, P.C. (eds) Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications. ARC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4943. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78610-8_35
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