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FPGAW: FPGA CONFIGURATION OVER THE INTERNET Octavian Creţ, Zoltan Baruch and Kalman Pusztai Department of Computer Science Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA {Octavian.Cret, Zoltan.Baruch, Kalman.Pusztai}@cs.utcluj.ro Abstract This paper presents the FPGAW project, a hardware/software product that allows the dynamic reconfiguration of Xilinx XC4000 and XC3000 Families FPGA devices over the Internet. FPGAW consists of a hardware part and a software part. The hardware part consists of a special board that allows the dynamic configuration of the two FPGA devices it contains over the ISA bus of a PC host. The software part triggers the configuration of the FPGA devices over the Internet (using the TCP/IP protocol). FPGAW is effective under both Linux and Windows NT operating systems. Keywords: FPGA Devices, TCP/IP Protocol, XILINX XC4000 Family, Client-Server application, Dynamic reconfiguration. 1. INTRODUCTION The Internet revolution is the greatest event of the past decade, changing the life of the entire scientific community all over the world. This also had an impact on the hardware design process which has to deal now with complex problems raised by the new remote configuration possibilities. If nowadays most of the hardware designs target the computer peripherals, in the future the hardware design process will be dedicated to control the most important computer peripheral: the Internet. The FPGAW aims to solve the problems raised by the use of hardware devices in places difficult to access (satellites, meteorological sites etc.) but where it is possible to have a system connected to the Internet through a radio modem or a similar device. Another poten