AN 806: Hierarchical Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial: for Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA Development Board

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Step 1: Getting Started Step 2: Creating a Child Level Sub-module Step 3: Creating Design Partitions Step 4: Allocating Placement and Routing Region for PR Partitions Step 5: Adding the Partial Reconfiguration Controller IP Step 6: Defining Personas Step 7: Creating Revisions Step 8: Compiling the Base Revision Step 9: Preparing the PR Implementation Revisions for Parent PR Partition Step 10: Preparing the PR Implementation Revisions for Child PR Partitions Step 11: Programming the Board Modifying an Existing Persona Adding a New Persona to the Design
Step 5: Adding the Partial Reconfiguration Controller IP x
Updating the Top-Level Design
Step 7: Creating Revisions x
Setting the Base Revision Type Creating Implementation Revisions
Step 11: Programming the Board x
Programming the Child PR Region Troubleshooting PR Programming Errors
Hierarchical Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial for Intel Arria® 10 GX FPGA Development Board

Creating Implementation Revisions

  1. To open the Revisions dialog box, click Project > Revisions.
  2. To create a new revision, double-click <<new revision>>.
  3. In Revision name, specify hpr_child_default and select blinking_led for Based on revision.
  4. For the Revision type, select Partial Reconfiguration - Persona Implementation.
    Figure 10. Creating Revisions
    Note: You can add the static region .qdb file by turning on This project uses a Partition Database (.qdb) file for the root partition, and then specifying the static region .qdb file name.
  5. Enable This project uses a Partition Database (.qdb) file for the root partition. You do not need to specify the Root Partition Database file at this point. You can input this name at a later stage from the Design Partitions Window.
  6. Turn off, Set as current revision.
  7. Repeat steps 1-6 to create these implementation revisions:
    • hpr_child_slow
    • hpr_child_empty
    • hpr_parent_slow_child_default
    • hpr_parent_slow_child_slow
    Figure 11. New Implementation Revisions
  8. Verify that the .qsf file for each revision now contains the following assignment: 
    set_global_assignment -name REVISION_TYPE PR_IMPL
set_instance_assignment -name ENTITY_REBINDING place_holder -to u_blinking_led
    where, place_holder is the default entity name for the newly created PR implementation revision.
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