Figure 6: Alveo Data Center Accelerator U200 Card New Project Summary
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Creating an MCS File and Programming the Alveo
Card
For custom RTL flow, this section outlines the procedures to do the following:
• Create an MCS file (PROM image)
• Flash programming through the USB-JTAG (Micro USB) interface
Create an MCS File (PROM Image)
The Alveo accelerator card contains a Quad SPI configuration flash memory part that can be
configured over USB-JTAG. This part contains a protected region, with the factory base image at
the
0x00000000
address space. This base image points to the customer programmable region at
a
0x01002000
address space offset.
To ensure that the PROM image is successfully loaded onto the Alveo accelerator card at power
on, the starting address must be set to
0x01002000
and the interface set to spix4 when
creating the MCS file. Details on adding this to the MCS file can be found in the UltraScale
Architecture Configuration User Guide (
).
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