GSM Based Configuration of FPGA

A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by either the customer or a designer after manufacturing – hence “field-programmable”. In-flight reconfigurability and dynamic partial reconfiguration enhances space applications with re-programmable hardware and at runtime adaptive functionality attracts the use of FPGAs. FPGAs can provide designers with almost limitless flexibility, but once FPGA is programmed and interfaced with other pheripherals, it’s difficult to change the application which is running on FPGA. So, here we use a wireless programming technique to configure the FPGA based on our requirement. A wireless medium is preferred so as to avoid a physical connection with FPGA. In our idea we are going to select the application program in RAM and directly configuring it to FPGA using GSM. Hence we can swap from one application program to another by using a message sent from the user.