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1.8. Example Partial Reconfiguration with an Internal Host
The PR programming bitstream(s) stored in an external flash device can be routed through the regular I/Os of the FPGA device, or received through the high speed transceiver channel (PCI Express, SRIO or Gigabit Ethernet), for processing by the internal host.
The PR dedicated pins (PR_REQUEST, PR_READY, PR_DONE, and PR_ERROR) can be used as regular I/Os when performing partial reconfiguration with an internal host. For the full FPGA configuration upon power-up, you can set the MSEL[4:0] pins to match the configuration scheme, for example, Active Serial, Passive Serial, FPPx8, FPPx16, or FPPx32. Alternatively, you can use the JTAG interface to configure the FPGA device. At any time during user-mode, you can initiate partial reconfiguration through the FPGA core fabric using the PR internal host.
In the following figure, the programming bitstream for partial reconfiguration is received through the PCI Express link, and your logic converts the data to the FPPx16 mode.
An example of the configuration setup when performing partial reconfiguration using the internal host.