This paper describes the distribution of processing and process migration in a PC-FPGA hybrid system. Here, the proposed hybrid system is constructed by a bus network using Ethernet, and communication between the nodes of the system is achieved by a proprietary protocol that is defined on the basis of Ethernet frames. For performance evaluation, we compare the processing time by distributed processing with that in the previous work. In addition, the execution process is migrated to FPGA. Experimental results show that the proposed system is capable of distributed processing using both PC and FPGA, and has the ability to migrate PC processing to FPGA.
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