A Self-Reconfigurable Computing Platform Hardware Architecture

TL;DR

This paper presents a PC-based FPGA hardware architecture that enables rapid reconfiguration via PCI bus, emphasizing simplicity and efficiency for parallel processing tasks.

Contribution

It introduces a novel FPGA platform architecture that supports fast reconfiguration and maintains a simple physical design, enhancing flexibility and usability.

Findings

Efficient FPGA resource utilization demonstrated

Fast reconfiguration over PCI bus achieved

Simple hardware design maintained

Abstract

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have recently been increasingly used for highly-parallel processing of compute intensive tasks. This paper introduces an FPGA hardware platform architecture that is PC-based, allows for fast reconfiguration over the PCI bus, and retains a simple physical hardware design. The design considerations are first discussed, then the resulting system architecture designed is illustrated. Finally, experimental results on the FPGA resources utilized for this design are presented.