13th Collaboration Meeting of the
CBM Experiment at FAIR
March 9 - 13, 2009 -
Information

Title:	Mr.
Family Name:	Abel
First Name:	Norbert
Gender:	male
E-Mail:	abelkip.uni-heidelberg.de
Affiliation for Badge:	Universität Heidelberg
Institute:	Kirchhoff Institute for Physics
Address (Street):	INF 227
Postal Code, City:	69120, Heidelberg
Country:	Germany
Phone:	06221/549808
Fax:	06221/549108
Arrival Date:	March 9
Departure Date:	March 13
Hotel Information:	NONE
Author(s):	Norbert Abel Udo Kebschull
Institute(s):	Kirchhoff Institute for Physics
Title:	Enhanced Design Flexibility Based on Partial Reconfiguration
Abstract:	Xilinx FPGAs like Virtex2, Virtex4 or Virtex5 provide the possibility to be reconfigured partially and dynamically. This means, that parts of the hardware can be exchanged while the rest of the circuit is running untouched. Nowadays, typical applications of dynamical partial reconfiguration (DPR) are streaming, low power, reconfigurable coprocessors and fault tolerance. Furthermore, DPR can help to increase design flexibility and scalability while the design itself becomes smaller at the same time. Regarding to the DAQ (data acquisition) in high energy physic experiments, all these topics are of interest. Unfortunately, today it is still very complex to use DPR, since the developer has to understand the reconfiguration techniques in detail to be able to use DPR. That causes a small usage of DPR in DAQ systems, yet. In the following we want to present a DPR framework that makes it possible to use the complete DPR techniques without going in detail with the underlying technology. Thus, our framework enables regular DAQ developers to use all the advantages coming with partial reconfiguration.

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