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Trenz Electronic Products => UltraScale => Topic started by: marvind on July 26, 2017, 11:33:30 AM

Title: TE0808 - Partial Reconfiguration
Post by: marvind on July 26, 2017, 11:33:30 AM
Hello,

we have a TE0808 (xczu9eg-es2) and would like to use partial reconfiguration in our design. As mentioned in https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx2017_2/ug909-vivado-partial-reconfiguration.pdf p.7 "[Partial] Bitstream generation is disabled by default for these devices". Could you help us on how to enable this feature for our ES2 device? This is the specific error we get:

ERROR: [Vivado 12-4164] Partial Reconfiguration bitstream generation is not supported for part xczu9eg-ffvc900-1-e-es2.

Kind regards
Marvin
Title: Re: TE0808 - Partial Reconfiguration
Post by: JH on July 26, 2017, 09:53:03 PM
Hi,

try this: https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Vivado-TCL-Community/Vivado-2017-1-Enable-Partial-Reconfiguration-will-make-the/td-p/765522

But I think this would not work. It seems PR is not supported for ES devices.

br
John
Title: Re: TE0808 - Partial Reconfiguration
Post by: marvind on July 27, 2017, 12:37:31 PM
Unfortunately, this does not help. Partial reconfiguration is enabled in Vivado and Place&Route does work, but bitstream generation fails. In fact, it seems it is not supported for ES.

Thanks
Marvin
Title: Re: TE0808 - Partial Reconfiguration
Post by: JH on July 27, 2017, 01:06:46 PM
Hi,

there are different ways to generate partial reconfiguration files. One way is make only difference between 2 files.
Maybe you can try this:
https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Design-Methodologies-and/difference-based-partial-reconfiguration-in-vivado/td-p/495020

Try with 2 bitfiles from this device.

This was possible on old ISE. But I never tried on vivado:
https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/application_notes/xapp290.pdf

So if this option works. Make hierarchical design flow generate partitions on vivado floorplanner. Make one static and one pr region. Set a little gap between this areas and check routing on floorplanner.
Export static placement and use this on 2 projects. Change only pr part and make differential files.
If you use differential based PR, you must generate files for all combination of reloads.
In case of 2 different PR design A,B.  A->B and B->A

Hierarchical Design Flow is nearly the same only with less restriction. So you must check this manually.

br
John