The design and implementation of a context switching FPGA

Scalera, S.M.   Vazquez, J.R.

Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)
pp. 78-85, April, 1998.


Abstract

Dynamic reconfiguration of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has
recently emerged as the next step in reconfigurable computing.
Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company, is developing the enabling
technology to exploit dynamic reconfiguration. The device being
developed is capable of storing four configurations on-chip and
switching between them on a clock cycle basis. Configurations can be
loaded while other contexts are active. A powerful cross-context data
sharing mechanism has been implemented. The current status of this
work and future work are described.