REMOTE ACCESS TO FPGA

Abstract

Despite the lot of work done in the field of digital system and design in which user not only can create new design based upon their innovation but can also check the output of that idea in numerical form. For this purpose a hardware component is required that maps the user file and check the validity of the design. The hurdle in testing and implementing this approach is the cost of the hardware itself. Especially for students it is close to impossible to buy this hardware then handle it safely as it is so expensive. This project opens a way of accessing the FPGA from a far off place. The users are not in the vicinity of the FPGA they are at their homes and they can test their code on FPGA.Then validity of the user code would be best understood by seeing the output in numerical values. This access given by first putting the FPGA on LAN and make it accessible to users that are in LAN. The clients first need to be connected for access to FPGA. For this purpose FPGA has to be connected to a common PC that will entertain all the clients. Client needs to send the module file output of which he/she wants to see this file will be processed by the server PC and results computed will be send back to the client side. The client and sever should have a common data base in which user will send the values of its input and output ports. At the time of building the user file on FPGA the server pc will take the values from this shared data base run the simulations and then send the answer back to the database. These result values will come to the user end. The product is working fine as it is sending the answers back to the client side. This software if extensively used by one organization and then if it satisfies the needs of all the students will become popular in other organizations too. The demand of its software solely depends upon the feedback of the customer. If good response comes from the customer end then further enhancement could be done in this project.