AN 817: Static Update Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial: for Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA Development Board

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1. Static Update Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial for Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA Development Board
1. Static Update Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial for Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA Development Board x
1.1. Tutorial Requirements 1.2. Reference Design Overview 1.3. Static Update Region Overview 1.4. Download Reference Design Files 1.5. Reference Design Walkthrough 1.6. Static Update Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial Revision History
1.5. Reference Design Walkthrough x
1.5.1. Step 1: Getting Started 1.5.2. Step 2: Create Design Partitions 1.5.3. Step 3: Allocate Placement and Routing Regions 1.5.4. Step 4: Add the Partial Reconfiguration Controller IP 1.5.5. Step 5: Define Personas 1.5.6. Step 6: Create Revisions 1.5.7. Step 7: Compile the Base Revision 1.5.8. Step 8: Set Up PR Implementation Revisions 1.5.9. Step 9: Change the SUPR Logic 1.5.10. Step 10: Program the Board 1.5.11. Modifying the SUPR Partition
1.5.4. Step 4: Add the Partial Reconfiguration Controller IP x
1.5.4.1. Update the Top-Level Design
1.5.6. Step 6: Create Revisions x
1.5.6.1. Setting the Base Revision 1.5.6.2. Creating Implementation Revisions
1. Static Update Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial for Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA Development Board

1.5.9. Step 9: Change the SUPR Logic

To change the functionality of the logic within the SUPR partition, you must change the SUPR partition source. Complete the following steps to replace the u_top_counter instance in the SUPR partition with the top_counter_fast entity.
  1. To set the SUPR implementation revision as current, click Project > Revisions and set impl_blinking_led_supr_new as the current revision, or select the revision on the Intel® Quartus® Prime main toolbar.
  2. To verify the correct source file for the implementation revision, click Project > Add/Remove files in Project, and verify that top_counter_fast.sv is the source for the impl_blinking_led_supr_new implementation revision. If present, remove top_counter.sv from the list of project files.
  3. To specify the .qdb file associated with the root partition, click Assignments > Design Partitions Window, and then double-click the Partition Database File cell to specify blinking_led_static.qdb.
    Alternatively, use the following command to assign this file: 
    set_instance_assignment -name QDB_FILE_PARTITION \
     blinking_led_static.qdb -to |
  4. In the Entity Re-binding cell for pr_partition, specify the appropriate entity name. For this example, specify the blinking_led_empty entity. In this case, you are overwriting the u_blinking_led instance from the base revision compile with the new entity blinking_led_empty. The following line now exists in the .qsf: 
    ##impl_blinking_led_supr_new.qsf
set_instance_assignment -name ENTITY_REBINDING blinking_led_empty \
     -to u_blinking_led
  5. In the Entity Re-binding cell for supr_partition, specify the top_counter_fast entity. top_counter_fast is the name of the static entity that replaces u_top_counter when you complete the SUPR. 
    ##impl_blinking_led_supr_new.qsf
set_instance_assignment -name ENTITY_REBINDING top_counter_fast \
     -to u_top_counter
  6. Before compiling the implementation revision, make sure the revision's .qsf file (impl_blinking_led_supr_new.qsf) contains the following assignment. This assignment directs the Assembler to automatically generate the required PR bitstreams following compilation: 
    set_global_assignment -name GENERATE_PR_RBF_FILE ON
set_global_assignment -name ON_CHIP_BITSTREAM_DECOMPRESSION OFF
  7. To compile the design, click Processing > Start Compilation. Alternatively, use following command to compile this project revision: 
    quartus_sh --flow compile blinking_led –c \
     impl_blinking_led_supr_new
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