A FPGA implementation of a real-time inspection system for steel roll imperfections

Today’s production processes are more and more optimized to be competitive. The production demands are increased for speed and quality. These increased demands do not pass the roll shops in the steel industry. In the roll shop periodically the rolls from the rolling mill are checked for imperfections. The imperfections are detected by special...

System Level Support for Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration

In this thesis a generic approach for integrating a dynamically reconfigurable device into a general purpose system interconnected with a high-speed interconnect, is described. The system dynamically installs and executes hardware instances implementing functions to accelerate parts of a particular workload. The hardware descriptions of the...