Systronix STEP in Xilinx Internet Reconfigurable Logic Demo at the 37th Design Automation Conference.

Xilinx demonstrated Internet Reconfigurable Logic (IRL) at the 37th Design Automation Conference in Los Angeles. Imagine re-programming a CoolRunner CPLD remotely, over the internet using a low cost, easy to program, embedded Java system.

Xilinx chose the Systronix STEP hardware and contracted with Systronix to develop embedded Java code and a browser interface for the demo. Attendees could reconfigure a CoolRunner CPLD by selecting a file in a browser window and sending it over the internet to the STEP/TINI board. Java code (written by David MacMahon) on TINI reprogrammed the CPLD which in turn sent a message to an LED array sign to display the chosen file message.
Xilinx is no longer hosting the video of this demo (sorry). Get more information about Xilinx CoolRunner XPLA3 CPLDs.

Xilinx booth at DAC with the CoolRunner demo station. Anita Schreiber is standing to the left of one of the three demo systems in front and you can see the LED sign (red digits in this case).

Wallace Westfeldt with the CoolRunner demo board to the left of the notebook PC. The demo board is a red Systronix STEP TINI sockets board to which Xilinx added the CPLD.

Anita Schreiber with the CoolRunner STEP demo board. The LED sign is just above the large monitor which is displaying the browser interface which controls the demo.

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