[sdiy] self-modifying code was: Re: My latest project

[cheater cheater]

Rainer,
thanks for your email.

How does this 'prefabricated bitstreams' stuff work?

Thanks
D.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:13, Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, cheater cheater wrote:
>
>> And similarly.. how does SMC work with FPGA's and its family? Is it
>> even possible?
>
> Depends on what you consider SMC here. Without knowledge about the FPGA's
> underlying structure, there's no such thing als dynamically changing
> individual parts of the FPGA. And this information is not revealed by the
> vendors.
>
> Some years ago, Xilinx announced their Xilinx Virtual File System, which
> would make the FPGA resources accessable through a VFS comparable to the
> /proc filesystem. No idea if this matured into any usable form or was
> publicly released at all, though.
>
> What you can do, however, is partial-dynamic reconfiguration based on
> prefabricated bitstreams.
>
> Rainer
>
>