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An FPGA Dynamically Reconfigurable Framework for Modular Robotics

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An FPGA Dynamically Reconfigurable Framework for Modular Robotics
Dynamic Reconfiguration has always constituted a challenge for embedded systems designers. Nowadays, technological developments make possible to do it on Xilinx FPGAs, but setting up a dynamically reconfigurable system remains a painful and complicated task. In this paper we propose a framework for performing it in an easy way, for a specific application: Modular Robotics. We propose an architecture containing a Microblaze processor and a reconfigurable module. The module is defined in VHDL and synthesized by the user; then we provide the scripts for easily generating the corresponding configuration bitstreams for a dynamic partial reconfigurable controller for our Modular Robot. The proposed framework is easily extendable to other applications.
Andres Upegui, Rico Moeckel, Elmar Dittrich, Auke
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where ARCS
Authors Andres Upegui, Rico Moeckel, Elmar Dittrich, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Eduardo Sanchez
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