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1. Intel® Agilex™ Configuration User Guide
2. Intel® Agilex™ Configuration Details
3. Intel® Agilex™ Configuration Schemes
4. Including the Reset Release Intel® FPGA IP in Your Design
5. Remote System Update (RSU)
6. Intel® Agilex™ Configuration Features
7. Intel® Agilex™ Debugging Guide
8. Intel® Agilex™ Configuration User Guide Archives
9. Document Revision History for the Intel® Agilex™ Configuration User Guide
2.1. Intel® Agilex™ Configuration Timing Diagram
2.2. Configuration Flow Diagram
2.3. Device Response to Configuration and Reset Events
2.4. Additional Clock Requirements for HPS and Transceivers
2.5. Intel® Agilex™ Configuration Pins
2.6. Configuration Clocks
2.7. Intel® Agilex™ Configuration Time Estimation
2.8. Generating Compressed .sof File
3.1.1. Avalon® -ST Configuration Scheme Hardware Components and File Types
3.1.2. Enabling Avalon-ST Device Configuration
3.1.3. The AVST_READY Signal
3.1.4. RBF Configuration File Format
3.1.5. Avalon-ST Single-Device Configuration
3.1.6. Debugging Guidelines for the Avalon® -ST Configuration Scheme
3.1.7. IP for Use with the Avalon® -ST Configuration Scheme: Intel FPGA Parallel Flash Loader II IP Core
3.1.7.4.1. PFL II IP Recommended Design Constraints to FPGA Avalon-ST Pins
3.1.7.4.2. PFL II IP Recommended Design Constraints for Using QSPI Flash
3.1.7.4.3. PFL II IP Recommended Design Constraints for using CFI Flash
3.1.7.4.4. PFL II IP Recommended Constraints for Other Input Pins
3.1.7.4.5. PFL II IP Recommended Constraints for Other Output Pins
3.2.1. AS Configuration Scheme Hardware Components and File Types
3.2.2. AS Single-Device Configuration
3.2.3. AS Using Multiple Serial Flash Devices
3.2.4. AS Configuration Timing Parameters
3.2.5. Maximum Allowable External AS_DATA Pin Skew Delay Guidelines
3.2.6. Programming Serial Flash Devices
3.2.7. Serial Flash Memory Layout
3.2.8. AS_CLK
3.2.9. Active Serial Configuration Software Settings
3.2.10. Intel® Quartus® Prime Programming Steps
3.2.11. Debugging Guidelines for the AS Configuration Scheme
5.1. Remote System Update Functional Description
5.2. Guidelines for Performing Remote System Update Functions for Non-HPS
5.3. Commands and Responses
5.4. Quad SPI Flash Layout
5.5. Generating Remote System Update Image Files Using the Programming File Generator
5.6. Remote System Update from FPGA Core Example
5.6.1. Prerequisites
5.6.2. Creating Initial Flash Image Containing Bitstreams for Factory Image and One Application Image
5.6.3. Programming Flash Memory with the Initial Remote System Update Image
5.6.4. Reconfiguring the Device with an Application or Factory Image
5.6.5. Adding an Application Image
5.6.6. Removing an Application Image
7.1. Configuration Debugging Checklist
7.2. Intel® Agilex™ Configuration Architecture Overview
7.3. Understanding Configuration Status Using quartus_pgm command
7.4. Configuration File Format Differences
7.5. Understanding SEUs
7.6. Reading the Unique 64-Bit CHIP ID
7.7. E-Tile Transceivers May Fail To Configure
7.8. Understanding and Troubleshooting Configuration Pin Behavior
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5.4.2.3. Configuration Pointer Block Layout
The configuration pointer block contains a list of application image addresses. The SDM tries the images in sequence until one of them is successful or all fail. The structure contains the following information:
Offset | Size (in bytes) | Description |
---|---|---|
0x00 | 4 | Magic number 0x57789609 |
0x04 | 4 | Size of pointer block header (0x18 for this document) |
0x08 | 4 | Size of pointer block (4096 for this document) |
0x0C | 4 | Reserved |
0x10 | 4 | Offset to image pointers (IPTAB) |
0x14 | 4 | Total number of image pointer slots allocated = 508 |
0x18 | 8 | Reserved |
0x20 (IPTAB) 14 | 8 | First (lowest priority) image pointer slot (IPTAB) |
8 | Second (2nd lowest priority) image pointer slot | |
8 | … | |
8 | Last (highest priority) image pointer |
The configuration pointer block can contain up to 508 application image pointers. A typical configuration pointer block update procedure consists of adding a new pointer and potentially clearing an older pointer. Typically, the pointer block update uses one new slot. Consequently, you can make 508 updates before the pointer block must be erased. The erase procedure is called pointer block compression. This procedure is power failure safe, as there are two copies of the pointer block. The copies are in different flash erase sectors. While one copy is being updated the other copy is still valid.
Note: In order to successfully update CPBs, the HPS software (U-Boot or Linux) must be configured to have a QSPI erase granularity of 32 KB or less. When configured with a coarser erase granularity (like 64 KB for example), the operation fails. All supported flash devices offer erase granularities of 4 KB, 32 KB, and 64 KB, and the default for the current HPS software is 4 KB.
14 The offset may vary in future firmware updates.