AN 953: Partially Reconfiguring a Design: on an Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA Development Board

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Partially Reconfiguring a Design on Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA Development Board
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Reference Design Overview Reference Design Requirements Reference Design Files Reference Design Walkthrough Document Revision History for AN 953: Partially Reconfiguring a Design on Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA Development Board
Reference Design Walkthrough x
Step 1: Getting Started Step 2: Creating a Design Partition Step 3: Allocating Placement and Routing Region for a PR Partition Step 4: Defining Personas Step 5: Creating Revisions Step 6: Compiling the Base Revision Step 7: Preparing PR Implementation Revisions Step 8: Programming the Board Modifying an Existing Persona Adding a New Persona to the Design
Step 5: Creating Revisions x
Setting the Base Revision Type Creating Implementation Revisions
Step 8: Programming the Board x
Troubleshooting PR Programming Errors
Partially Reconfiguring a Design on Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA Development Board

Partially Reconfiguring a Design on Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA Development Board

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Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Suite 21.1
This application note demonstrates transforming a simple, flat (non-partitioned) design into a partially reconfigurable design, and implementing the design on the Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA development board.

The partial reconfiguration (PR) feature allows you to reconfigure a portion of the FPGA dynamically, while the remaining FPGA design continues to function. You can create multiple personas for a particular region in your design that do not impact operation in areas outside this region. This methodology is effective in systems where multiple functions time-share the same FPGA device resources. The current version of the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software introduces a new and simplified compilation flow for partial reconfiguration.

Partial reconfiguration provides the following advancements to a flat design:
  • Allows run-time design reconfiguration
  • Increases scalability of the design
  • Reduces system down-time
  • Supports dynamic time-multiplexing functions in the design
  • Lowers cost and power consumption through efficient use of board space

This tutorial uses the Intel® Agilex® F-Series FPGA development board on the bench, outside of the PCIe* slot in your workstation.


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Reference Design Overview
Reference Design Requirements
Reference Design Files
Reference Design Walkthrough
Document Revision History for AN 953: Partially Reconfiguring a Design on Intel Agilex F-Series FPGA Development Board

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