Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Managing shared services in reconfigurable FPGA regions
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Application No.: US15616732Application Date: 2017-06-07
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Publication No.: US10402219B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Andrew Butcher , Shawn Joel Dube
- Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
- Applicant Address: US TX Round Rock
- Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
- Current Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Round Rock
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455

Abstract:
An information handling system may include a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and an FPGA service manager, within a hypervisor, to receive from software running in a virtual machine a request for an FPGA service, load a bitstream for the service into a first region of the FPGA, increment a count of concurrent users of the bitstream, determine, subsequent to a further update to the count, whether the count is zero or non-zero, and reclaim the first region of the FPGA if the count is zero. The bitstream may be received from the virtual machine or from a catalog of bitstreams maintained on the hypervisor. The FPGA service manager may load a second instance of the bitstream into a second region of the FPGA dependent on execution constraints specified in a bitstream header, or may load a bitstream for a second service into the second region of the FPGA.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180357090A1 MANAGING SHARED SERVICES IN RECONFIGURABLE FPGA REGIONS Public/Granted day:2018-12-13
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