Details: FPGA loading

HardwareModule base class

• Most of our modules (though not external modules) have FPGAs.
• Is it worth making FPGA loading a common base class function?
• Requires access to FPGA Parts of subclasses...
• ...and would be unused for several of our modules.

FpgaSpec

• Devise database description of how an FPGA should be loaded.
• Need path to a file and version number/string reported by a register in the loaded FPGA to check. Descriptive name for each FPGA type (eg Serialiser) also useful.
• Database could have a collection of all the FPGA programs relevant to a given type of module.