A hardware virtual machine for networked reconfiguration

Networked reconfiguration is an enabling technology for cost effective service deployment and maintenance. A hardware virtual machine to enable this networked reconfiguration is presented. An abstract FPGA model is the core of such a hardware virtual machine. Based on this abstract FPGA model, the traditional implementation flow of FPGA has been separated into two parts: the service provider´s side and client´s side. We show how to split the FPGA design flow to enable this networked reconfiguration and present first results in the efficiency of the byte files for a hardware virtual machine