Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 Image Header Table - 2025.2 English - UG1283

Bootgen User Guide (UG1283)

Document ID
UG1283
Release Date
2025-11-20
Version
2025.2 English

This includes information about the number of images and partitions present. The Image Header Table consists of a header followed by a linked list of image headers. Each image header is linked to the next through a pointer, allowing Bootgen to navigate through the images efficiently.

The following table contains generic information related to the PDI image.

Table 1. Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 Image Header Table
Offset Name Description
0x0 Version 0x00010000 (v1.00)
0x4 Total Number of Images Maximum 32 Images
0x8 Image header offset Address to start of first Image header
0xC Total Number of Partition Max 32 Partitions
0x10 Partition Header Offset Offset to the start of partitions headers
0x14 Secondary boot device address

Indicates the address where secondary image is present.

This is only valid if secondary boot device is present in attributes

0x18 ID Code Device ID code
0x1C Image Header Table Attributes Refer to Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 Image Header Table Attributes
0x20 PDI ID User defined field for information like revision.
0x24 Reserved  
0x28 Identification string

Full PDI if present with boot header – “FPDI”

Partial/Sub-system PDI – “PPDI”

0x2C Header sizes

0 – 7: Image header table size in words

8 – 15: Image header size in words

16 – 23: Partition header size in words

24 – 31: Reserved

0x30 Total meta header length Including Authentication and encryption overhead (excluding IHT and including AC)
0x34 -0x3C IV for encryption of headers IV for decrypting (SecureHeader) of header table
0x40

Encryption status

0x00000000 - Unencrypted

0xA5C3C5A3 - eFUSE Key

0xA5C3C5A5 - eFUSE Black Key

0xA5C3C5A7 - eFUSE Obfuscated Key

0x3A5C3C5A - BBRAM Key

0x3A5C3C59 - BBRAM Black Key

0x3A5C3C57 - BBRAM Obfuscated Key

0xA35C7C53 - Boot Header Black Key

0xA35C7CA5 - Boot Header Obfuscated Key

Encryption key source, only key source used for PLM is valid for meta header

0x44 Extended ID Code Extended ID Code
0x48 Hash block AC Offset of meta header Holds authentication certificate offset of meta header Hash block
0x4C – 0x54 KEK IV of meta header KEK IV of meta header KEK
0x58 Size of IHT Optional Data Number of words in IHT Optional Data. This must be a multiple of 4 to align the optional data on 16 bytes.
0x5C Authentication Header Hash algorithm selection and authentication algorithm
0x60 Hash block length Hash block length for Meta header
0x64 Hash block offset Meta header hash block offset
0x68 Total PPK Size Includes key alignment length in case, else actual PPK size
0x6C Actual PPK Size Actual PPK size
0x70 Total Hash block signature size Hash block signature Size with padding to make it aligned
0x74 Actual Hash block signature size Actual Hash block signature size
0x78 Reserved 0x0
0x7C Checksum A sum of all the previous words in the image header table