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Xilinx FPGA Manager / Linux

Once the kernel is booted and configured with a correct device-tree blob, the FPGA can be updated with new bitstreams using the fpgautil tool.

fpgautil and downloading from Linux requires to use the bin bitstream format (file that contains only configuration data (it has no header as the “.bit” file does).

Converting bit to bin files can be done using the fpga-bit-to-bin.py tool available from several sources (see below). A version is included in this repo.

$ ./fpga-bit-to-bin.py -f virtual.bit virtual.bin

fpgautil requires root privileges to upload a configuration to the FPGA.

# fpgautil -b virtual.bin -f Full

Sources:

Xilinx fpgautil

• local copy
• https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx-tools/blob/master/recipes-bsp/fpga-manager-script/files/fpgautil.c

fpga-bit-to-bin.py is available from several sources

• fpga-bit-to-bin.py local copy
• https://github.com/topic-embedded-products/meta-topic/blob/master/recipes-bsp/fpga/fpga-bit-to-bin/fpga-bit-to-bin.py
• https://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd/blob/master/mpm/python/usrp_mpm/fpga_bit_to_bin.py

Documentation:

• Xilinx wiki: https://xilinx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/A/pages/18841645/Solution+Zynq+PL+Programming+With+FPGA+Manager
• Xilinx file formats: https://support.xilinx.com/s/article/14468?language=en_US