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19 years ago

Dynamic Reconfiguration

Hi, Do any of the Altera FPGAs offer dynamic reconfiguration abilities similar to that found on Xilinx which uses JBits. Thanks
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19 years ago

I attended a seminar at the Embedded Systems Conference 2007 in which Xilinx presented their partial dynamic reconfiguration. I got the feeling that it was available, but, as you said, still for early adopters.

If memory serves, the presentation showed an example with an FPGA that could do audio processing, and reconfigure a portion of itself to have either a low-pass filter, high-pass filter, or no filter.

During the presentation it occurred to me that dynamic reconfiguration does not seem to have many advantages over simply having two FPGA's, one of which can configure the other.