Building a Dynamically Reconfigurable System Through a High Development Flow

Partial Reconfiguration is one of the most attractive features of FPGAs. This feature provides new computing possibilities, such as the reduction of the total area required in a FPGA by means of functioning overlapping, or the modification of the design after its deployment, where a complete configuration is not needed. However, the design of partially reconfigurable systems is still a complex task. This work focuses on facilitating the design process and proposes a new development framework for dynamically configurable systems from high level UML/MARTE models which, starting from dynamically reconfigurable systems high level UML/MARTE models. Simulation and VHDL code are generated from those models, according to the specification requirements of the reconfigurable hardware captured in the specifications. To demonstrate this approach, a edge detection-based use case has been implemented with the developed framework.