Quartus® Prime Pro Edition: Version 24.1 Software and Device Support Release Notes

ID 683706
Date 4/01/2024
Public

1.9. Intel® FPGA SDM Firmware

Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Version 24.1 includes new SDM firmware features as well as fixes.

When regenerating your configuration bitstream, use the latest version of the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software, which includes the latest firmware. You do not need to recompile your .sof to use the firmware from a newer version of the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software. You can regenerate your configuration bitstream with the new version of the Programming File Generator.

New Intel® FPGA SDM Firmware Features and Enhancements

Table 19.  New Agilex™ 5 SDM Firmware Features and Enhancements
New Feature or Enhancement Component Area
Initial release for device support N/A
Table 20.  New Agilex™ 7 SDM Firmware Features and Enhancements
New Feature or Enhancement Component Area
Added support for late root key hash provisioning. Security
Added new SDM mailbox command VERIFY (0x7A) to verify the integrity and authenticity of a bitstream image stored configuration flash memory. Security
Table 21.  New Stratix® 10 SDM Firmware Features and Enhancements
New Feature or Enhancement Component Area
N/A N/A

For the latest device firmware patches, refer to Intel® FPGA Knowledge Base Article, What is the latest device firmware for Agilex™ FPGA and Stratix® 10 FPGA? .