Using FPGAs to create a reconfigurable IEEE1451.0-compliant weblab infrastructure

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Abstract

The reconfiguration capability provided by Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) and the current limitations of weblab infrastructures, opened a new research window. This paper focus on describing the way weblabs can be reconfigured with different Instruments & Modules (I&M) required to conduct remote experiments, without changing the entire infrastructure. For this purpose, the paper emphasizes the advantage of using FPGAs to create reconfigurable weblab infrastructures using the IEEE1451.0 Std. as a basis to develop, access and bind embedded I&Ms; to an IEEE1451.0-Module

Keywords

Weblab infrastructures Remote labs Reconfiguration IEEE1451.0 Std. FPGA

Subject

WebLabs

Conference

REC2013, 9th Portuguese Meeting on Reconfigurable Systems, February 2013