Stratix® 10 Configuration User Guide

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Date 4/05/2024
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5.1.2. Remote System Update Using AS Configuration

Remote system update using AS configuration includes the following components:

  • Your remote system update host design. The host can be custom logic, the HPS, or a Nios® II processor in the FPGA.
  • One factory image.
  • Flash memory for image storage.
  • At least one application image.
  • Designs that do not use the HPS as the remote system update host require a Mailbox Client Intel® FPGA IP as shown in the figure below. The Mailbox Client Intel® FPGA IP sends and receives remote system update operation commands and responses, such as QSPI_READ and QSPI_WRITE.
    Figure 68.  Stratix® 10 Remote System Update Components
Attention:

Starting in version 19.2 of the Quartus® Prime software, a restriction applies to the following mailbox client IPs that access the SDM mailbox over an Avalon® memory-mapped interface ( Avalon® -MM) interface:

  • Temperature Sensor
  • Voltage Sensor
  • Chip ID
  • Serial Flash Mailbox Client
  • Mailbox Client
  • Advanced SEU Detection
  • Partial Reconfiguration

If you use the Mailbox IP in designs compiled in Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 19.2 or later, you must only use SDM firmware starting from version 19.2 or later to configure the FPGA.