The biggest problem with FPGA dynamic reconfiguration of today is that it is slow and not fine grained.
The vendors haven't really seen this as an area which their customers are interested in. Maybe this has been changing in the recent years with the military's interest in software defined radio, but they probably don't need very rapid reconfigurations so maybe not ..
That's actually why I brought that up. I'm quite interested in ideas that have never been done before. (Hardware examples are non-typical FPGA use, modern trinary processors, using PID-like "overdrive" to speed up digital transistor switching)
Comments
The biggest problem with FPGA dynamic reconfiguration of today is that it is slow and not fine grained.
The vendors haven't really seen this as an area which their customers are interested in. Maybe this has been changing in the recent years with the military's interest in software defined radio, but they probably don't need very rapid reconfigurations so maybe not ..
IIRC state-of-the-art reconfiguration times can get below 10ms when using partial reconfiguration.
In the field of sotfware-defined radio, the USRP hardware from the GNU Radio project has an onboard FPGA. It's a great project, lets you deploy most radio stacks with only a few clicks: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/doc/exploring-gnuradio....
That's actually why I brought that up. I'm quite interested in ideas that have never been done before. (Hardware examples are non-typical FPGA use, modern trinary processors, using PID-like "overdrive" to speed up digital transistor switching)