Virtual Reconfigurable Machine

With shorter cycles of development, the long term availability of electronic components becomes a critical issue. A plane, for example, may be produced for more than a decade and operated for more than two. One possibility to address this issue is to implement hardware functionality in an abstracted manner such that hardware modules may be hosted on various different hardware platforms over time. This idea is adopted from the Java concept where a bytecode can be executed on completely different host CPUs.

The mission of this thesis is to examine the feasibility of FPGAs to act as a virtual reconfigurable machine.