Xilinx Board Swiss Army Knife Utility

Xilinx® Board Swiss Army Knife (xbsak) utility is a standalone command line utility that can perform the following board administration and debug tasks independent of SDAccel™ runtime library (.so) and for the SDAccel tools installation:

• Board administration tasks:
  • Flash device configuration memory of the board.
  • Reboot boards without rebooting the host.
  • Reset hung boards.
  • Query board status, sensors and PCIe® AER registers.
• Debug operations:
  • Download the SDAccel binary..xclbin) to FPGA.
  • Test DMA for PCIe bandwidth.
  • Show status of compute units.

The xbsak utility automatically adds itself to your path when you run the setup.{csh|sh} file created by xbinst when it created the deployent files for the deployment machince.