Intel® Agilex™ SoC FPGA Boot User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. Introduction 2. FPGA Configuration First Mode 3. HPS Boot First Mode 4. Creating the Configuration Files 5. Golden System Reference Design and Design Examples 6. Configuring the FPGA Fabric from HPS Software 7. Debugging the Intel® Agilex™ SoC FPGA Boot Flow A. Document Revision History for Intel® Agilex™ SoC FPGA Boot User Guide
1. Introduction x
1.1. Glossary 1.2. Intel® Agilex™ SoC FPGA Boot Overview
2. FPGA Configuration First Mode x
2.1. Boot Flow Overview for FPGA Configuration First Mode 2.2. System Layout for FPGA Configuration First Mode
2.1. Boot Flow Overview for FPGA Configuration First Mode x
2.1.1. Power-On Reset (POR) 2.1.2. Secure Device Manager 2.1.3. First-Stage Bootloader 2.1.4. Second-Stage Bootloader 2.1.5. Operating System 2.1.63.1.6. Application2.1.63.1.6. Application
2.2. System Layout for FPGA Configuration First Mode x
2.2.1. External Configuration Host Only 2.2.2. External Configuration Host with HPS Flash 2.2.3. Single SDM Flash 2.2.4. FPGA Configuration First Dual Flash System
3. HPS Boot First Mode x
3.1. Boot Flow Overview 3.2. System Layout for HPS Boot First Mode
3.1. Boot Flow Overview x
3.1.1. Power-On Reset (POR) 3.1.2. Secure Device Manager 3.1.3. First-Stage Bootloader 3.1.4. Second-Stage Bootloader 3.1.5. Operating System 2.1.63.1.6. Application2.1.63.1.6. Application
3.2. System Layout for HPS Boot First Mode x
3.2.1. External Configuration Host Only 3.2.2. External Configuration Host with HPS Flash 3.2.3. Single SDM Flash 3.2.4. HPS Boot First Dual Flash System
4. Creating the Configuration Files x
4.1. Overview 4.2. Intel® Quartus® Prime Hardware Project Compilation 4.3. Bootloader Software Compilation 4.4. Programming File Generator 4.5. Configuration over JTAG 4.6. Configuration from QSPI 4.7. Configuration over AVST 4.8. Configuration via Protocol 4.9. Remote System Update
4.2. Intel® Quartus® Prime Hardware Project Compilation x
4.2.1. Device and Pin Options 4.2.2. Platform Designer Options
4.6. Configuration from QSPI x
4.6.1. Supported QSPI Devices 4.6.2. FPGA Configuration First 4.6.3. HPS Boot First
4.6.2. FPGA Configuration First x
4.6.2.1. Creating Configuration Files from Command Line 4.6.2.2. Creating Configuration Files Using Graphical Interface
4.6.3. HPS Boot First x
4.6.3.1. Creating Configuration Files from Command Line 4.6.3.2. Creating Configuration Files Using Graphical Interface
4.7. Configuration over AVST x
4.7.1. FPGA Configuration First 4.7.2. HPS Boot First
4.7.1. FPGA Configuration First x
4.7.1.1. Creating Configuration Files from Command Line 4.7.1.2. Creating Configuration Files Using Graphical Interface
4.7.2. HPS Boot First x
4.7.2.1. Creating Configuration Files from Command Line 4.7.2.2. Creating Configuration Files Using Graphical Interface
4.8. Configuration via Protocol x
4.8.1. Creating Configuration Files from Command Line 4.8.2. Creating Configuration Files Using Graphical Interface
5. Golden System Reference Design and Design Examples x
5.1. Golden System Reference Design 5.2. Bootloader Examples 5.3. Additional Design Examples
6. Configuring the FPGA Fabric from HPS Software x
6.1. Configuring the FPGA Fabric from U-Boot 6.2. Configuring the FPGA Fabric from Linux
7. Debugging the Intel® Agilex™ SoC FPGA Boot Flow x
7.1. Reset 7.2. Debugging the HPS Bootloader Using the Arm* DS* Intel® SoC FPGA Edition 7.3. Other Debug Considerations
7.1. Reset x
7.1.1. HPS Reset Pin 7.1.2. L4 Watchdog Timer 0
1. Introduction
2. FPGA Configuration First Mode
3. HPS Boot First Mode
4. Creating the Configuration Files
5. Golden System Reference Design and Design Examples
6. Configuring the FPGA Fabric from HPS Software
7. Debugging the Intel® Agilex™ SoC FPGA Boot Flow
A. Document Revision History for Intel® Agilex™ SoC FPGA Boot User Guide

4.1. Overview

The configuration files are created by the Intel® Quartus® Prime Programming File Generator, using the following inputs:
  • SOF file resulted from compilation of the hardware project in Intel® Quartus® Prime Software
  • HPS First Stage Bootloader (FSBL) hex file resulted from compiling an HPS bootloader
  • Intel® Quartus® Prime Firmware, which ends up running on the SDM
Figure 11. Overview of Configuration File Generation

The resulted configuration files contain the following components which are required for configuring the device:

Table 12.  Components for Configuring the Device
Source Component Description
SOF File HPS IO Configuration Data Used for configuring HPS IOs including HPS DDR
FPGA IO Configuration Data Used for configuring FPGA IOs
FPGA Fabric Configuration Data Used for configuring the FPGA fabric
Handoff Data for SDM Firmware Used to pass parameters to SDM firmware
Handoff Data for HPS FSBL Used to pass parameter to HPS FSBL
Intel® Quartus® Prime SDM Firmware Located at the beginning of configuration bitstream and can be executed as part of the configuration.
Your HPS Software HPS FSBL First software ran on HPS after SDM takes it out of reset
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