Intel® Arria® 10 CvP Initialization and Partial Reconfiguration over PCI Express User Guide

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Date 9/01/2020
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1. CvP Initialization in Intel® Arria® 10 2. Design Considerations for CvP Initialization in Intel® Arria® 10 3. Understanding the Design Steps for CvP Initialization in Intel® Arria® 10 4. CvP Driver and Registers 5. Partial Reconfiguration over PCI Express in Intel® Arria® 10 6. Understanding Design Steps for PR over PCI Express in Intel® Arria® 10 7. Document Revision History for the Intel® Arria® 10 CvP Initialization and Partial Reconfiguration over PCI Express* User Guide
1. CvP Initialization in Intel® Arria® 10 x
1.1. Benefits of Using CvP 1.2. CvP System 1.3. CvP Support for Intel® Arria® 10 Devices 1.4. CvP Initialization 1.5. CvP Compression and Encryption Features 1.6. CvP Pins
2. Design Considerations for CvP Initialization in Intel® Arria® 10 x
2.1. Designing CvP for an Open System 2.2. Designing CvP for a Closed System
3. Understanding the Design Steps for CvP Initialization in Intel® Arria® 10 x
3.1. Generating the Synthesis HDL Files for Intel® Arria® 10 PCI Express IP Core 3.2. Setting up the CvP Parameters in Device and Pin Options 3.3. Compiling the Design 3.4. Splitting the SOF File 3.5. Bringing up the Hardware
3.5. Bringing up the Hardware x
3.5.1. Installing Jungo WinDriver in Windows Systems 3.5.2. Installing Jungo WinDriver in Linux Systems 3.5.3. Installing Open Source CvP Driver in Linux System 3.5.4. Modifying MSEL/DIP switch on Intel® Arria® 10 Dev-Kit 3.5.5. Programming CvP Images
4. CvP Driver and Registers x
4.1. CvP Driver Support 4.2. CvP Driver Flow 4.3. VSEC Registers for CvP
4.3. VSEC Registers for CvP x
4.3.1. Altera-defined Vendor Specific Capability Header Register 4.3.2. Altera-defined Vendor Specific Header Register 4.3.3. Altera Marker Register 4.3.4. CvP Status Register 4.3.5. CvP Mode Control Register 4.3.6. CvP Data Registers 4.3.7. CvP Programming Control Register 4.3.8. Uncorrectable Internal Error Status Register 4.3.9. Uncorrectable Internal Error Mask Register 4.3.10. Correctable Internal Error Status Register 4.3.11. Correctable Internal Error Mask Register
5. Partial Reconfiguration over PCI Express in Intel® Arria® 10 x
5.1. Benefits of Using PR over PCI Express 5.2. PR over PCIe System 5.3. Partial Reconfiguration Design Flow 5.4. Partial Reconfiguration IP Core
1. CvP Initialization in Intel® Arria® 10
2. Design Considerations for CvP Initialization in Intel® Arria® 10
3. Understanding the Design Steps for CvP Initialization in Intel® Arria® 10
4. CvP Driver and Registers
5. Partial Reconfiguration over PCI Express in Intel® Arria® 10
6. Understanding Design Steps for PR over PCI Express in Intel® Arria® 10
7. Document Revision History for the Intel® Arria® 10 CvP Initialization and Partial Reconfiguration over PCI Express* User Guide

5.1. Benefits of Using PR over PCI Express

The PR over PCI Express solution has the following advantages:
  • Enables dynamic updates to portions of the FPGA design’s core such as LAB, MLAB, DSP and RAM while the rest of the design continues to run.
  • Facilitates hardware acceleration.
  • Design protection: PR over PCIe ensures the PCIe host can exclusively access the FPGA fabric image which provides protection against unauthorized design tampering or copying.
  • Image update without system down time: Allows a portion of the FPGA fabric to be updated through the PCIe link without a host reboot or FPGA full chip re-initialization.
  • Unlike Configuration via Protocol (CvP) which requires the bottom left PCIe Hard IP block be used, any Hard IP for PCI Express IP Core can be used for PR over PCIe. The Hard IP Core must be configured as an Endpoint.
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