VMware, Inc.
Just-in-time hardware for field programmable gate arrays

Abstract:

A system and method are disclosed for executing a hardware component of a design in a hardware engine, where the component includes a pre-compiled library component. The hardware component is compiled to include an interface that supports a `forward( )` function which, when invoked, requests that the hardware engine running the hardware component run such that interactions between the library component and the hardware component occur without communicating with the runtime system because interactions between the library component and the hardware component are handled locally by the hardware engine and not the runtime system. Handling the library component without the runtime system intervening allows the library component to run at a speed that is close to the native speed of the target re-programmable hardware fabric. In addition, library components targeted to the specific reprogrammable hardware fabric are available to the design without compilation.