AN 987: Static Update Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial: for Intel Agilex® 7 FPGA Development Board

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1.1. Tutorial Requirements 1.2. Reference Design Overview 1.3. Static Update Region Overview 1.4. Download Reference Design Files 1.5. Reference Design Walkthrough 1.6. Document Revision History of AN 987: Static Update Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial for Intel Agilex® 7 FPGA Development Board
1.5. Reference Design Walkthrough x
1.5.1. Step 1: Getting Started 1.5.2. Step 2: Create Design Partitions 1.5.3. Step 3: Allocate Placement and Routing Regions 1.5.4. Step 4: Define Personas 1.5.5. Step 5: Create Revisions 1.5.6. Step 6: Compile the Base Revision 1.5.7. Step 7: Set Up PR Implementation Revisions 1.5.8. Step 8: Change the SUPR Logic 1.5.9. Step 9: Program the Board 1.5.10. Modifying the SUPR Partition
1.5.5. Step 5: Create Revisions x
1.5.5.1. Setting the Base Revision 1.5.5.2. Creating Implementation Revisions
1.5.9. Step 9: Program the Board x
1.5.9.1. Troubleshooting PR Programming Errors
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1.5.8. Step 8: Change the SUPR Logic

To change the functionality of the logic within the SUPR partition, you must change the SUPR partition source. Complete the following steps to replace the u_top_counter instance in the SUPR partition with the top_counter_fast entity.
  1. To set the SUPR implementation revision as current, click Project > Revisions and set impl_blinking_led_supr_new as the current revision, or select the revision on the Intel® Quartus® Prime main toolbar.
  2. To verify the correct source file for the implementation revision, click Project > Add/Remove files in Project, and verify that top_counter_fast.sv is the source for the impl_blinking_led_supr_new implementation revision. If present, remove top_counter.sv from the list of project files.
  3. To specify the .qdb file associated with the root partition, click Assignments > Design Partitions Window, and then double-click the Partition Database File cell to specify blinking_led_static.qdb.
    Alternatively, use the following command to assign this file: 
    set_instance_assignment -name QDB_FILE_PARTITION \
     blinking_led_static.qdb -to |
  4. In the Entity Re-binding cell for pr_partition, specify the appropriate entity name. For this example, specify the blinking_led_empty entity. In this case, you are overwriting the u_blinking_led instance from the base revision compile with the new entity blinking_led_empty. The following line now exists in the .qsf: 
    ##impl_blinking_led_supr_new.qsf
set_instance_assignment -name ENTITY_REBINDING blinking_led_empty \
     -to u_blinking_led
  5. In the Entity Re-binding cell for supr_partition, specify the top_counter_fast entity. top_counter_fast is the name of the static entity that replaces u_top_counter when you complete the SUPR. 
    ##impl_blinking_led_supr_new.qsf
set_instance_assignment -name ENTITY_REBINDING top_counter_fast \
     -to u_top_counter
  6. To compile the design, click Processing > Start Compilation. Alternatively, use following command to compile this project revision: 
    quartus_sh --flow compile blinking_led –c \
     impl_blinking_led_supr_new
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