Title
Context Save and Restore of Partial Reconfiguration Regions for Xilinx FPGAs
Abstract
Preemption is an important technique used by modern operating systems to achieve multitasking. When FPGAs need to be integrated into the preemptive multitasking mechanisms of an operating system, a context switch of the design configured into the FPGA is required. Several proposals on how to take advantage of such a context switch by saving and restoring the internal state of an FPGA have been presented in the past. Unfortunately, these discussions give neither much of the technical details of the save and restore mechanism itself, nor are they available for modern FPGAs like Ultrascale-Series. This paper summarizes the technical details of these officially unsupported techniques to save and restore the internal state of modern Xilinx FPGAS (namely 7-Series and Ultrascale-Series) which are currently scattered over several other publications and technical manuals.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ReCoSoC48741.2019.9034942
2019 14th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
FPGA,context switch,ICAP,partial reconfiguration
Conference
2642-7230
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-4771-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcel Eckert100.34
Dominik Meyer200.34
Bernd Klauer35014.36