OPAE Intel FPGA Linux Device Driver Architecture Guide

ID 683857
Date 10/02/2017
Public
Document Table of Contents

1.1.1. FPGA Management Engine (FME)

The FPGA Management Engine performs power and thermal management, error reporting, reconfiguration, performance reporting, and other infrastructure functions. Each FPGA has one FME, which is always accessed through the Physical Function (PF).

User-space applications can acquire exclusive access to the FME using open(), and release it using close() as a privileged user (root).