Patent ID: 9584129
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H03K

Claim:
1. A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium, comprising instructions to: provide access to one or more reconfigurable partial-reconfiguration bitstream application platforms configured to define a placement constraint of a particular region of partial-reconfiguration blocks (PR blocks) of an integrated circuit (IC) where a partial-reconfiguration application core is to be stored, by publishing the one or more reconfigurable partial-reconfiguration bitstream application platforms to an application store, application provision service, or both; store the partial-reconfiguration application core at the particular region of the partial-reconfiguration blocks; provide a software development kit (SDK), configured to enable creation of one or more partial-reconfiguration bitstream applications that conform to the placement constraint of the one or more platforms, by publishing the SDK to the application store, the application provision service, or both; and provide access to one or more partial-reconfiguration bitstream applications that conform to the placement constraint of the one or more platforms, by publishing the one or more partial-reconfiguration bitstream applications to the application store, the application provision service, or both; wherein the partial-reconfiguration bitstream applications are configured to perform application tasks by reconfiguring, during runtime, selectable resources of the partial-reconfiguration application core stored at the particular region to implement functions of the one or more partial-reconfiguration bitstream applications that conform to the placement constraint, without affecting regions other than the particular region of partial-reconfiguration blocks.