What tool support will be provided to assist with dynamic reconfiguration?
A. Because partial reconfiguration can take on many different forms, there are no specific tools that are currently in development. Xilinx is working on feature enhancements to be included in future versions of the Xilinx implementation software to improve routing and placement of design modules. Xilinx application notes relating to partial reconfiguration, when appropriate, will contain tactical software demonstrating how to create partial reconfiguration and readback bitstreams. The first application note to contain software of this nature is XAPP153 “Status and Control Semaphore Registers Using Partial Reconfiguration”. Q. If tools were not planned, would Xilinx be prepared to release details of the Virtex configuration memory map and file structures so that we could consider writing our own tools? A. Xilinx has released a significant amount of details of the Virtex configuration bitstream in XAPP151, “Virtex Configuration Architecture Advanced Users’ Guide.” The details presented i
