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General Question - Which FPGAs can support partial run-tim reconfiguration?

Started by nickel January 12, 2005
Hi,

As far as I know, only Xilinx (XC6200, Virtex, Virtex-E, Virtex II,
Virtex 4) and Atmel (FPSLIC - AT94Kxx)support partial run-time
(dynamic) reconfiguration.

Is there any other FPGA vendor being able to support partial run-time
reconfiguration? What are they and what are the families?
Thanks 
Regards
Nickel

Your list is correct, but XC6200 is a dead family ( neither physically
available nor supported by Xilinx)
All Virtex family members are partially reconfigurable. You can
reconfigure these parts on a Frame by Frame basis. Before Virtex-4, a
frame stretched "vertically" across the chip, with 22 frames per column
of CLBs.(Different frame length for different chips)
In Virtex-4, the frames are shorter, giving you a finer granularity of
dynamic reconfiguration.
In all Virtex devices, a frame is changed instantly (the shift-in
operation is transparent), but when multiple frames are reconfigured,
that is a sequential operation, and the user must take care of the
in-between situations.
Hope this helps.
Peter Alfke, Xilinx Applications.