System design of active basestations based on dynamically reconfigurable hardware

– This paper describes the system design and implementation of Active Basestations, a novel application of the run-time reconfigurable hardware technology whose applications have so far been restricted to “Reconfigurable Computers” for compute-intensive tasks. Active Basestations are wireless packet routers that exploit dynamically reconfigurable hardware embedded in the packet processing datapath to allow application-defined adaptation of wireless network infrastructure while retaining high performance. Design tool and reconfigurable device architecture issues that arise in such reconfigurable network systems are also presented.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: DAC
• Authors: Athanassios Boulis, Mani B. Srivastava
• Keywords: Active Basestations, Computer Architecture, DAC 2000, Reconfigurable Hardware, Run-time Reconfigurable Hardware