TALON Infrastructure - FPGA Configuration via HPS using Linux (Part 4)

The completion of the TALON-DX Board Support Package is critical to users of the TALON-DX board.  These users include:

1. CIPA team developing TALON Demonstration Correlator (TDC)
2. DSH SPFRx Team developing Band 1/2 Digitizer prototype

Remote bitstream management and configuration of the Intel Stratix 10 FPGA on the TALON-DX board is one of the key features of the TALON infrastructure. 

FPGA can be programmed via HPS using Linux - this includes ability to select the bitstreams on the SD card to be used to re-program FPGA.

FPGA can be successfully re-configured with different or the same bitstream.

Remote bitstream configuration of the FPGA on TALON-DX board is demonstrated using CLI or GUI.

Developers and user guides updated for the latest version of software are available, code is well documented.

At the System Demo 7.4 it was demonstrated that the FPGA can be successfully programmed via HPS (LINUX) using a bit-stream package stored on the microSD card. CLI was used to issues commands to program and re-program the FPGA I(alternate between two bitstream stored locally on the SD card).
Work on software that provides infrastructure for access to firmware registers sets will continue in IP Sprint and if necessary in PI8. During PI7 virtually all aspects of communication between HPS and FPGA have been re-designed (streamlined and simplified), details are still being defined.