Clearing the AES Key for 7 Series Devices - 2023.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Programming and Debugging (UG908)

Document ID
UG908
Release Date
2023-10-19
Version
2023.2 English

To clear the AES key manually, disconnect the Vbatt pins and power-cycle the board.

Note: Pressing or pulsing the PROG pin when the board/FPGA is powered up does not clear the BBR register.

Alternatively, you can clear the AES key in Vivado IDE by right-clicking the FPGA in the Hardware window, selecting Clear BBR Key…

Figure 1. Clearing the AES Key for 7 Series Devices

When the Clear BBR Key dialog box appears, click OK to clear the key from the device.

Figure 2. Clear BBR Key Dialog Box

Important: When verify_hw_devices is performed on the BBR key, an error is displayed. To verify the BBR key, the user should test this by programming the FPGA with a bitstream that has the key. Vivado does not support any post BBR program verify option to verify the programmed BBR key.