Upgrading Fpd; Prerequisites For Fpd Image Upgrades; Overview Of Fpd Image Upgrade Support - Cisco NCS 5000 Series Manual

Upgrading FPD

In general terms, field-programmable devices (FPDs) are hardware devices implemented on router cards
that support separate software upgrades. A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a type of programmable
memory device that exists on most hardware components of the router. The term FPD has been introduced
to collectively and generically describe any type of programmable hardware device on SIPs and shared port
adapters (SPAs), including FPGAs. Cisco IOS XR software provides the Cisco FPD upgrade feature to
manage the upgrade of FPD images on SIPs and SPAs.
This chapter describes the information that you must know to verify image versions and to perform an
upgrade for SPA or SIP FPD images when incompatibilities arise.
Table 6: Feature History for Upgrading FPD
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Prerequisites for FPD Image Upgrades

Before upgrading the FPD on your router you must install and activate the fpd.pie fpd.rpm package.
This is for the manual upgrade using the upgrade hw-module FPD command.

Overview of FPD Image Upgrade Support

An FPD image is used to upgrade the software on an FPD.
Prerequisites for FPD Image Upgrades, page 107
Overview of FPD Image Upgrade Support, page 107
How to Upgrade FPD Images, page 109
Configuration Examples for FPD Image Upgrade, page 112
System Management Configuration Guide for Cisco NCS 5000 Series Routers, IOS XR Release 6.2.x
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