Research Article

A High-Speed Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Controller Using Direct Memory Access Through a Multiport Memory Controller and Overclocking with Active Feedback

Table 1

Existing Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Approaches.

Study Device, bitstr. mem. Method Max ICAP speed

Claus et al.
[4], 2008
Virtex-2P, DDR OPB 4.77 MB/s @100 MHz
Claus et al.
[4], 2008
Virtex-2P, DDR PLB bus Custom ICAP DMA contr. 89.9 MB/s @100 MHz
Bomel at al.
[6], 2009
Virtex-2P, DDR Ethernet 50 MB/s @100 MHz
Claus et al.
[4], 2008
Virtex-4, DDR2 OPB 5.07 MB/s @100 MHz
Claus et al.
[4], 2008
Virtex-4, DDR2 PLB bus Custom ICAP DMA contr. 295.4 MB/s @100 MHz
Manet et al.
[5], 2008
Virtex-4, ZBT SRAM or DDR Custom ICAP DMA contr. 350 MB/s @100 MHz
shelburne et al. [7], 2010 Virtex-4, FPGA BRAM MetaWire (custom) 219.31 MB/s @100 MHz
Bomel et al.
[6], 2009
Virtex-4, DDR Ethernet 50 MB/s @100 MHz
Liu et al.
[8], 2010
Virtex-4, FPGA BRAM PLB IP for BRAM Tx (fastest) 371.4 MB/s (max) @100 MHz