Management and Analysis of Bitstreams Generators for Xilinx FPGAs: analysis of FPGA configuration memory for Dynamic Reconfigurable architectures - Softcover

Candiloro, Davide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3639205863 ISBN 13: 9783639205862

Publisher: VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

This work introduces the concepts used in analyzing the end product of the Xilinx FPGA bitstream generation toolchain, for the application of Dynamic Reconfiguration methodologies, i.e. a particular set of tecniques used to change a portion of the FPGA hardware at runtime. By analyzing the bitstream files of single hw sections, the requirements enforced by the manufacturer can be verified by means of an automated SW - separated from Xilinx toolchain - described in the book. The insight into configuration memory gained from the analysis of bitstreams has been further exploited to implement advanced tools for dynamic reconfiguration, such as analysis of area conflicts in the evolution of the configuration over time, or possible bitstream relocation position computation. This book illustrates the algorithms and methodologies used for extracting information from bitstream files, verifying constraints and perform further analysis in light of dynamic reconfiguration capabilities of the FPGA.

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About the Author

Davide Candiloro has a double degree in computer science from Italian University Politecnico di Milano (Computer science Engineering - laurea specialistica) and University of Illinois at Chicago (ECE MSc). His previous work has been developing SoC architectures on reconfigurable hardware. He also works on large software engineering projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639205863
• ISBN 13: 9783639205862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168