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The design of reconfigurable systems is currently an area of intense interest within the programmable logic community. One of the main obstacles to the widespread adoption of this technology is the relative immaturity of the associated design methodologies and tools. This paper reports on a development environment and associated tools for the implementation and debugging of reconfigurable applications. These tools are part of a larger program of work to improve the construction of reconfigurable systems. The current environment is specific to a custom Xilinx XC6200 development board, but the principles are generic and portable to other reconfigurable systems and architectures.
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McGregor, G., Robinson, D., Lysaght, P. (1998). A hardware/software co-design environment for reconfigurable logic systems. In: Hartenstein, R.W., Keevallik, A. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic and Applications From FPGAs to Computing Paradigm. FPL 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055253
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