AN 805: Hierarchical Partial Reconfiguration of a Design on Intel® Arria® 10 SoC Development Board

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Hierarchical Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial for Intel® Arria® 10 SoC 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 Intel® Arria® 10 Partial Reconfiguration Controller IP Core Step 6: Defining Personas Step 7: Creating Revisions Step 8: Generating the Hierarchical Partial Reconfiguration Flow Script Step 9: Running the Hierarchical Partial Reconfiguration Flow Script Step 10: Programming the Board Modifying an Existing Persona Adding a New Persona to the Design
Step 5: Adding the Intel® Arria® 10 Partial Reconfiguration Controller IP Core x
Updating the Top-Level Design
Step 7: Creating Revisions x
Creating Implementation Revisions Creating Synthesis-Only Revisions Specifying Revision Type
Hierarchical Partial Reconfiguration Tutorial for Intel® Arria® 10 SoC Development Board

Adding a New Persona to the Design

After fully compiling your base revisions, you can still add new personas and individually compile these personas.

For example, to define a new child persona for blinking_led_parent_slow, that turns led_three off:

  1. Copy blinking_led_child_empty.sv to blinking_led_chdild_off.sv.
  2. In the blinking_led_child_off.sv file, modify the assignment, assign led_three_on = 1'b0; to assign led_three_on = 1'b1;. Ensure you change the module name from blinking_led_child_empty to blinking_led_child_off .
  3. Create a new synthesis revision, blinking_led_child_off, by following the steps in Creating Synthesis-Only Revisions.
    Note: The blinking_led_child_off revision must use the blinking_led_child_off.sv file.
  4. Create a new implementation revision, blinking_led_pr_foxtrot, by following the steps in Creating Implementation Revisions.
  5. Update the a10_​hier_partial_​reconfig/​setup.tcl file to define the new PR implementation: 
    define_pr_impl_partition -impl_rev_name blinking_led_pr_foxtrot \
        -partition_name pr_partition \
        -source_rev_name blinking_led_child_off \
        -source_partition root_partition \
        -source_snapshot synthesized

define_pr_impl_partition -impl_rev_name blinking_led_pr_foxtrot \
        -partition_name pr_parent_partition \
        -source_rev_name blinking_led_pr_delta \
        -source_partition pr_parent_partition \
        -source_snapshot final
  6. Compile just this new synthesis and implementation revision by running the following command: 
    quartus_sh –t a10_hier_partial_reconfig/flow.tcl –setup_script \
        a10_hier_partial_reconfig/setup.tcl –all_syn

quartus_sh -t a10_hier_partial_reconfig/flow.tcl -setup_script \
        a10_hier_partial_reconfig/setup.tcl -all_impl

For complete information on hierarchical partial reconfiguration for Intel® Arria® 10 devices, refer to Creating a Partial Reconfiguration Design in Volume 1 of the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Handbook.

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