Attempting to Program Configuration Memory Attached to an FPGA Device - 2021.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Programming and Debugging

Document ID
UG908
Release Date
2021-10-22
Version
2021.2 English

To program configuration memory attached to an FPGA device, Vivado Hardware Manager first downloads a flash controller bitstream to the FPGA device. Hardware Manager then sends flash commands and data through the FPGA device's JTAG port to be processed by the controller, which then sends the processed flash commands/data to the configuration memory interface.

The controller bitstream downloaded by Hardware Manager is generated for the latest silicon revision of the FPGA device. For example, the configuration memory controller bitstream for the XCKU115 in 2016.3 and later was generated for XCKU115-es2 silicon.

When programming configuration memory attached to this FPGA, if the user has an XCKU115-es1 device on the board, the error message shown in Attempting to Program an FPGA Device with a Bitstream Generated for a Different Silicon Revision of the FPGA appears. This is because Hardware Manager is attempting to download the -es2 flash controller bitstream into the -es1 device.