Utilities for the FPGA programming

This page describes how to use the script for programming the FPGA and restoring PCIE configuration to avoid a host PC reboot. A host PC installing the NetFPGA-SUME card needs to be rebooted after programming the FPGA with a bit file. To avoid the reboot, the script given in the scripts directory can be used for programming the FPGA. Once a host PC is rebooted, the PCIE configuration of the NetFPGA-SUME card can be restored by running the script.

Go to the scripts directory where "run_load_image.sh" can be found. Run the scripts

$ bash run_load_image.bit <path_to_bitfile>

Before run this script, the Xilinx Vivado needs to be sourced and the sume_riffa.ko kernel driver should be compiled. The script tells if the host PC needs to be rebooted.