Development of a tool-set for remote and partial reconfiguration of FPGAs

This work describes the implementation of digital reconfigurable systems (DRS) using commercial FPGA devices. The main goal is to present a set of tools for remote and partial reconfiguration developed for the Virtex FPGA family. Even though the tools are targeted to a specific device, their building principles may easily be adapted to other FPGA families, if they have an internal architecture enabling partial reconfiguration. The main contribution of the paper is the tool-set proposed to manipulate cores using partial reconfiguration in existing FPGAs.