Educational applications of partial reconfiguration of FPGAS

The use of partial reconfiguration (PR) in reconfigurable systems such as Field Programming Gate Arrays (FPGAs) has gained a lot of attention during the past ten years. Recently, Xilinx has released the first commercially available PR implementation for its FPGAs. However, there is a lack of educational tools for PR instruction. In addition, the design and implantation of PR on FPGAs can be beneficial compared with the current communications tools within academia. This thesis presents the design and simulation of several basic modulation schemes within Simulink and System Generator for educational applications in communications classes. In addition, the implementation process of creating and testing additional partial bitstreams will take a few minutes rather than a few hours, which make this reconfigurable system a suitable system for educational applications. Furthermore, each modulation scheme can be implemented without any use of Hardware Description Language (HDL), embedded, and software development design. After implementing these models on an FPGA the results of these implementations are analyzed and compared with the simulation results. The results demonstrate the proper implementation of these PR designs on FPGAs.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Sarfaraz, Maysam

Contributors dc:contributor

• Craven, Stephen D.
• Eltom, Ahmed; Yaqub, Raziq
• College of Engineering and Computer Science

• Adaptive computing systems

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• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

Language dc:language

English, eng

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https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/53

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oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1052