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Is Dyamic partial reconfiguration supported in any of altera FPGAs

Altera_Forum
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hi 

 

I am a graduate student and working on my thesis. i would like to know if any of the altera fpga's provide dynamic partial reconfiguration features. 

 

-shayan
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Altera_Forum
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The new Stratix V devices are supposed to. Take a look at their handbook. 

 

Cheers, 

Dave
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hi dave.. 

 

i checked out stratix V handbook and what i found is that they support DPR for the tranceiver channels but there is nothing mentioned about the rest of fpga area. What i am looking is the kind of DPR support provided by xilinx on the virtex fpgas. Does stratix V support such kind of DPR 

 

-shayan
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Hi shayan, 

 

 

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there is nothing mentioned about the rest of fpga area. What i am looking is the kind of DPR support provided by xilinx on the virtex fpgas. Does stratix V support such kind of DPR 

 

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The main Stratix V page implies that it is possible: 

 

http://www.altera.com/products/devices/stratix-fpgas/stratix-v/stxv-index.jsp 

 

"Get Ultimate Flexibility for Your Designs, User-friendly fine-grain partial reconfiguration, which allows you to change core functionality on the fly" 

 

and then a little further down the page there is a "Partial Reconfiguration" link 

 

http://www.altera.com/products/devices/stratix-fpgas/stratix-v/overview/partial-reconfiguration/stxv-part-reconfig.htm  

 

This looks like the functionality you are looking for. Perhaps the handbook has not been updated to include this yet; I didn't look at it. 

 

Cheers, 

Dave
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The latest edition of the "Embedded Systems Design" magazine has an article from Altera about reconfiguration; "Making hardware 

more like software" 

 

http://pages.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/esd0611/offline/cmp_esd0611.pdf 

 

Cheers, 

Dave
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Altera_Forum
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hey thanks dave this was exactly what i was looking for... 

 

Regards, 

-shayan
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