Chapter 19. Configuration Bitstream Generation
Steven A. GuccioneCmpware, Inc.
While a reconfigurable logic device shares some of the characteristics of a fixed hardware device and some of a programmable instruction set processor, the details of the underlying architecture and how it is programmed are what distinguish these machines. Both a reconfigurable logic device and an instruction set processor are programmable by “software,” but the internal organization and use of this software are quite different. In an instruction set processor, the programming is a set of binary codes that are incrementally fed into the device during operation. These codes actually carry out a form of reconfiguration inside the processor. The arithmetic and logic unit(s) ...
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