AN 954: Hierarchical Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial: for the Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA Development Board

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Hierarchical Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial for the Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA Development Board
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Step 1: Getting Started Step 2: Creating a Child Level Submodule Step 3: Creating Design Partitions Step 4: Allocating Placement and Routing Region for PR Partitions Step 5: Defining Personas Step 6: Creating Revisions Step 7: Compiling the Base Revision Step 8: Preparing the PR Implementation Revisions for Parent PR Partition Step 9: Preparing the PR Implementation Revisions for Child PR Partitions Step 10: Programming the Board Modifying an Existing Persona Adding a New Persona to the Design
Step 6: Creating Revisions x
Setting the Base Revision Type Creating Implementation Revisions
Step 10: Programming the Board x
Programming the Child PR Region
Hierarchical Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial for the Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA Development Board

Step 10: Programming the Board

This tutorial uses an Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA development board on the bench, outside of the PCIe* slot in your host machine. Before you program the board, ensure that you have completed the following steps:

  1. Connect the power supply to the Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA development board.
  2. Connect the Intel® FPGA Download Cable between your PC USB port and the Intel® FPGA Download Cable port on the development board.

To run the design on the Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA development board:

  1. Open the Intel® Quartus® Prime software and click Tools > Programmer.
  2. In the Programmer, click Hardware Setup and select USB-Blaster.
  3. Click Auto Detect and select the appropriate device for your development kit.
  4. Click OK. The Intel® Quartus® Prime software detects and updates the Programmer with the three FPGA chips on the board.
  5. Select the Intel® Agilex® device, click Change File and load the blinking_led.sof file.
  6. Enable Program/Configure for blinking_led.sof file.
  7. Click Start and wait for the progress bar to reach 100%.
  8. Observe the LEDs on the board blinking at the same frequency as the original flat design.
  9. To program only the child PR region, right-click the blinking_led.sof file in the Programmer and click Add PR Programming File.
  10. Select the hpr_child_slow.pr_parent_partition.pr_partition.rbf file.
  11. Disable Program/Configure for blinking_led.sof file.
  12. Enable Program/Configure for hpr_child_slow.pr_parent_partition.pr_partition.rbf file and click Start. On the board, observe LED[0] and LED[1] continuing to blink. When the progress bar reaches 100%, LED[2] blinks at the same rate, and LED[3] blinks slower.
  13. To program both the parent and child PR region, right-click the .rbf file in the Programmer and click Change PR Programing File.
  14. Select the hpr_parent_slow_child_slow.pr_parent_partition.rbf file.
  15. Click Start. On the board, observe that LED[0] and LED[1] continuing to blink. When the progress bar reaches 100%, both LED[2] and LED[3] blink slower.
  16. Repeat the above steps to dynamically re-program just the child PR region, or both the parent and child PR regions simultaneously.
Figure 14. Programming the Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA Development Board

If you face any PR programming errors, refer to the Avoiding PR Programming Errors section in the Partial Reconfiguration User Guide.

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