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Agilex 5 RSU, application image addition fails

Dear all,

We are trying, unsuccessfully, to add new application images in a Agilex5 based project .

We re using am AXE5000 board with an Agilex5  A5EC008BM16AE6S (M16A) model and a  256 Mbit QSPI config Flash memory. We are working with Quartus Prime Pro 25.1.0 version. 

Following the example here our programming file generator looks like this

Below is shown the content of our .map file:

BLOCK START ADDRESS END ADDRESS

BOOT_INFO 0x00000000 0x0020FFFF

FACTORY_IMAGE 0x00210000 0x00357FFF (0x00316FFF)

SPT0 0x00358000 0x0035FFFF

SPT1 0x00360000 0x00367FFF

CPB0 0x00368000 0x0036FFFF

CPB1 0x00370000 0x00377FFF

P1 0x00378000 0x0048BFFF

Configuration device: A5EC008BM16A

Configuration mode: Active Serial x4

Notes:

- Data checksum for this conversion is 0xE6BCBC7E

- All the addresses in this file are byte addresses

In this scenario, using system console and the script rsu1.tcl provided , we have been able to switch between Aplication and Factory images flawlessly using "rsu_image_update" function.

Then following the mentioned excample, we tryied to add a new application image

qspi_open

qspi_set_cs

program_flash ./output_files/RemoteImage_jic.rpd 0x0048C000 1024

Once finished, we can check how the memory possitions have been written changing from all 0xFFFFFFFF to different values, using :

qspi_read 0x0048C000 512

Then, we check the configuration pointer blocks:

qspi_read [expr { 0x00368000 + 0x20}] 1

qspi_read [expr { 0x00368000 + 0x28 }] 1

qspi_read [expr { 0x00370000 + 0x20}] 1

qspi_read [expr { 0x00370000 +  0x28}] 1

Here we can see in both pointers how the current application image pointer entry has the value 

0x00378000, while the next image pointer entry  has all ones 0xFFFFFFFF. Then we update the aplication pointers with:

qspi_write_one_word  [expr { 0x00368000 + 0x28}] 0x0048C000

qspi_write_one_word  [expr { 0x00370000 + 0x28}] 0x0048C000

Using "qspi_read" again we see how the pointer entries which before were all ones 0xFFFFFFFF, now contains the new address 0x0048C000. Then we close the qspi access with "qspi_close".

Now, if we restart the system we see how the application image loaded is the one which was originally set on address 0x00378000. Running "rsu_status", we see how the added image failed 

The failing code returned is not listed in Error Code Responses

Could you please help us with this topic?

Thanks in advance

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