1. Intel
®
Agilex
™
Configuration User Guide
1.1. Intel
®
Agilex
™
Configuration Overview
All Intel
®
Agilex
™
devices include a Secure Device Manager (SDM) to manage FPGA configuration and security. The SDM
provides a failsafe, strongly authenticated, programmable security mode for device configuration. Previous FPGA families
include a fixed state machine to manage device configuration.
The Intel Quartus
®
Prime software also provides flexible and robust security features to protect sensitive data, intellectual
property, and the device itself under both remote and physical attacks. Configuration bitstream authentication ensures that
the firmware and configuration bitstream are from a trusted source. Encryption prevents theft of intellectual property. The
Intel Quartus Prime software also compresses FPGA bitstreams, reducing memory utilization such as the on-board quad SPI
flash device that is storing the FPGA bitstreams.
Intel describes configuration schemes from the point of view of the FPGA. Intel Agilex devices support active and passive
configuration schemes. In active configuration schemes the FPGA acts as the master and the external memory acts as a slave
device. In passive configuration schemes an external host acts as the master and controls configuration. The FPGA acts as the
slave device. All Intel Agilex configuration schemes support design security and partial reconfiguration. All Intel Agilex active
configuration schemes support remote system update (RSU) with quad SPI flash memory. To implement RSU in passive
configuration schemes, an external controller must store and drive the configuration bitstream.
Intel Agilex devices support the following configuration schemes:
•
Avalon
®
Streaming (Avalon-ST)
•
JTAG
•
Configuration via Protocol (CvP)
•
Active Serial (AS) normal and fast modes
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