Versal Adaptive SoC Use Cases - Versal Adaptive SoC Use Cases - 2026.1 English - UG1283

For Versal adaptive SoC, AMD Vivado™ generates a boot image known as programmable device image (PDI). This AMD Vivado™ generated PDI contains the bootloader software executable – PLM, along with PL related components, and supporting data files. Based on the project and the CIPS configuration, Vivado creates a BIF file and invokes Bootgen to create the PDI. This BIF is exported as part of XSA to software tools like AMD Vitis™ . You can then modify the BIF with the required partitions and attributes. Ensure that the lines related to id_code and extended_id_code are retained as is in the BIF file. This information is mandatory for the PDI image generation by Bootgen.

If you want to write the BIF manually, refer to the Vivado-generated BIF for the same device. Make sure you add the id_code and extended_id_code lines to your manual BIF. The sample BIF generated by Vivado is as follows:

new_bif:
{
	id_code = 0x04ca8093
	extended_id_code = 0x01
	id = 0x2
	image
	{
		name = pmc_subsys
		id = 0x1c000001
		partition
		{
			id = 0x01
			type = bootloader
			file = gen_files/plm.elf
		}
		partition
		{
			id = 0x09
			type = pmcdata, load = 0xf2000000
			file = gen_files/pmc_data.cdo
		}
	}
	image
	{
		name = lpd
		id = 0x4210002
		partition
		{
			id = 0x0C
			type = cdo
			file = gen_files/lpd_data.cdo
		}
		partition
		{
			id = 0x0B
			core = psm
			file = static_files/psm_fw.elf
		}
	}
	image
	{
		name = pl_cfi
		id = 0x18700000
		partition
		{
			id = 0x03
			type = cdo
			file = system.rcdo
		}
		partition
		{
			id = 0x05
			type = cdo
			file = system.rnpi
		}
	}
	image
	{
		name = fpd
		id = 0x420c003
		partition
		{
			id = 0x08
			type = cdo
			file = gen_files/fpd_data.cdo
		}
	}
}