Why does Active Serial configuration for Intel Agilex® 7 devices fail when using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software v20.4.1? - Why does Active Serial configuration for Intel Agilex® 7 devices fail when using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software v20.4.1? Description Due to a problem in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software v20.4.1, you may see Active Serial (AS) configuration failure for Intel Agilex® 7 devices. If you read sdm_config_status after a configuration failure as instructed in AN 936: Executing SDM Commands via JTAG Interface , you will see the following error message: % sdm_config_status MSEL[2:0] : 011 (AS (Normal POR)) Configuration pin signals: nSTATUS : 1 nCONFIG : 1 CONF_DONE : 0 INIT_DONE : 0 CvP_DONE : 0 SEU_ERROR : 0 HPS_WARMRESET : 0 HPS_COLDRESET : 0 MSEL[2:0] Table: 3'b000 AvST x32 3'b101 AvST x16 3'b110 AvST x8 3'b001 AS (Fast POR) 3'b011 AS (Normal POR) 3'b111 JTAG only State : 0xf004001c Error location : 0x00025e00 Configuration fail! Major code: 0xF004 Internal error, refer minor error code for detail. Minor code: 0x001C Portion of bitstream detected invalid. Resolution This problem has been fixed in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software v21.1 and onwards. Custom Fields values: ['novalue'] Troubleshooting 1509786541 False ['novalue'] ['FPGA Dev Tools Quartus® Prime Software Pro'] 21.1 20.4 ['Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs'] ['novalue'] ['novalue'] ['novalue']