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In this paper we present a partial bitstreams ultra-fast downloading process through a standard Ethernet network. These Virtex-based and partially reconfigurable systems use a specific data-link level protocol to communicate with remote bistreams servers. Targeted applications cover portable communicating low cost equipments, multi-standards software defined radio, automotive embedded electronics, mobile robotics or even spacecrafts where dynamic reconfiguration of FPGAs reduces the components count: hence the price, the weight, the power consumption, etc... These systems require a local network controller and a very small internal memory to support this specific protocol. Measures, based on real implementations, show that our systems can download partial bistreams with a speed twenty times faster (a sustained rate of 80 Mbits/s over Ethernet 100 Mbit/s) than best known solutions with memory requirements in the range of 10th of KB.
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Bomel, P., Crenne, J., Ye, L., Diguet, JP., Gogniat, G. (2009). Ultra-Fast Downloading of Partial Bitstreams through Ethernet. In: Berekovic, M., Müller-Schloer, C., Hochberger, C., Wong, S. (eds) Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2009. ARCS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5455. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00454-4_10
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