Partial Reconfiguration on FPGAs

This is the first book to focus on designing run-time reconfigurable systems on FPGAs, in order to gain resource and power efficiency, as well as to improve speed.  Case studies in partial reconfiguration guide readers through the FPGA jungle, straight toward a working system.  The discussion of partial reconfiguration is comprehensive and practical, with models introduced together with methods to implement efficiently the corresponding systems.  Coverage includes concepts for partial module integration and corresponding communication architectures, floorplanning of the on-FPGA resources, physical implementation aspects starting from constraining primitive placement and routing all the way down to the bitstream required to configure the FPGA, and verification of reconfigurable systems.

Introduction.- Intra-FPGA Communication Architectures for Reconfigurable Systems.- Building Partially Reconfigurable Systems: Methods and Tools.- Self-adaptive Reconfigurable Networks.- Reconfigurable CPU Instruction Set Extensions.- Concluding Remarks.