Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs Version 1.3.1 Release Notes: Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000-N

ID 683474
Date 6/16/2021
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Migrating your FPGA RTL Design from Intel® Acceleration Stack v1.1 to Intel® Acceleration Stack v1.3.1

The Intel FPGA PAC N3000-N supports operation at higher temperatures. The v1.3.1 RTL package, provided in the Acceleration Stack for Development, has updated the DDR4 IP core settings to refresh at a faster rate to maintain data integrity at higher temperatures. For your existing 1.1 FPGA design to work in the higher temperature environment supported by Intel FPGA PAC N3000-N, you must perform the following steps:
  1. Port your 1.1 FPGA design to work in v1.3.1 RTL. Edit the ccip_std_afu.sv file, change line 52:
    From:
    localparam int TIMESTAMP_WIDTH             = 96
    To:
    parameter TIMESTAMP_WIDTH                  = 96
  2. Recompile your RTL using the make flow as described in the Acceleration Functional Unit Developer Guide.