AN 953: Partially Reconfiguring a Design: on an Intel Agilex® 7 FPGA Development Board

ID 683849
Date 1/30/2024
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Partially Reconfiguring a Design on an Intel Agilex® 7 FPGA Development Board

This application note demonstrates transforming a simple, flat (non-partitioned) design into a partially reconfigurable design, and implementing the design on an Intel Agilex® 7 F-Series or M-Series FPGA development board.

The partial reconfiguration (PR) feature allows you to reconfigure a portion of the FPGA dynamically, while the remaining FPGA design continues to function. You can create multiple personas for a particular region in your design that do not impact operation in areas outside this region. This methodology is effective in systems where multiple functions time-share the same FPGA device resources. The current version of the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software introduces a new and simplified compilation flow for partial reconfiguration.

Partial reconfiguration provides the following advancements to a flat design:
  • Allows run-time design reconfiguration
  • Increases scalability of the design
  • Reduces system down-time
  • Supports dynamic time-multiplexing functions in the design
  • Lowers cost and power consumption through efficient use of board space