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Configuration-Frames for Virtex-II (Pro)

Started by Sven May 31, 2005
Hi,

I try to find some information about the internal structure of the
configuration-frames for Xilinx Virtex-II (Pro) architecture. On Xilinx
websites I just find informations about the
configuration-memory-addressing
for these architectures and some informations for the Virtex
architecture,
but i`m intressted in the meaning of the bits in the frames. Can
anybody
help me?

At the moment I plan to use JBits and analyze the bitstream(s)
afterwards,
but this won`t be the best way.

thx,
Sven

Hi Sven,

Sven wrote:

> I try to find some information about the internal structure of the > configuration-frames for Xilinx Virtex-II (Pro) architecture. On Xilinx > websites I just find informations about the > configuration-memory-addressing > for these architectures and some informations for the Virtex > architecture, > but i`m intressted in the meaning of the bits in the frames. Can > anybody > help me?
You won't find much (any?) official xilinx documentation about the meaning of individual bits in the frames. There are some tools you can use to reverse engineer for yourself, such as the "-l" switch to bitgen, the ngc2xdl, and so on. This subject is/has been discussed at some length on the partial-reconfig mailing list - details here: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~jwilliams/mblaze-uclinux/Mailing_List/ Googling a topic and adding the search term "partial-reconfig" often finds the list archive as well. Hope this helps, John