Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide: Partial Reconfiguration

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Date 9/24/2018
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1.8. Example Partial Reconfiguration with an Internal Host

You can create PR internal host logic with the PR IP core. If your design uses an internal host, the PR IP core handles the required hand-shaking protocol with the PR control block.

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.

Figure 16. Connecting to an Internal Host

An example of the configuration setup when performing partial reconfiguration using the internal host.