Abstract
dc:description.abstractAs hardware applications become increasingly complex, the supporting technology needs to evolve and adapt to the demands. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Application Specific Integrated Circuit, General Purpose Processor, and System on Chip are the preferred devices for solving computational problems. Each of these platforms has its own specific advantages and disadvantages, which need to be accounted for during application development. Flexible radio communications has been dominated by Software Defined Radios. However, research in industry and universities has successfully developed run-time reconfiguration tools to make FPGA designs more flexible and thus vastly reducing configuration times. Developers now have a more powerful platform with dense Digital Signal Processor resources and the flexibility of SDR. Xilinx offers tools such as partial reconfiguration, which is a special modification of the standard tool-flow that supports configuration of the selected partial regions on an FPGA. The AgileHW project improves on the Xilinx tools resource allocation and routing scheme to increase the design agility and productivity. This thesis advances the AgileHW reconfigurable platform so developers can use the newer technology to build enhanced designs.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2010
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Bhardwaj, Prabhaav
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Athanas, Peter M.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Plassmann, Paul E.
- Schaumont, Patrick R.
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-12202010-144158
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/36347