Title
A prototyping platform for virtual reconfigurable units
Abstract
Virtualization has been a key enabler for trading raw performances for programmability, straightforward reuse and higher abstraction in the software world. Similarly, Virtual FPGAs define intermediate fabrics, on which to implement applications regardless of the physical target. In order to make legacy applications run on up-to-date targets, only porting the vFPGAs to these targets is required, resulting in factorizing the development costs. Virtualization has a cost though, that one can reduce by tailoring the vFPGA based on applications class requirements. Then, prototyping Virtual FPGAs comes to be central. This paper introduces a platform dedicated to prototyping virtual FPGAs. We offer to generate vFPGA based on ADL specification along with exploitation tools. vFPGAs appear as IPs to be embedded into the platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ReCoSoC.2014.6860689
ReCoSoC
Keywords
Field
DocType
prototyping platform,virtual fpga,reconfigurable architectures,adl specification,virtualisation,field programmable gate arrays,reconfigurable architecture,virtual reconfigurable units,computer architecture,virtualization,hardware
Virtualization,Computer architecture,Computer science,Reuse,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Full virtualization,Software,Porting,Hardware design languages,Legacy system,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Loïc Lagadec112.38
Jean-christophe Le Lann2847.49
Theotime Bollengier351.16