Yes if you use the ARM processor PCAP,
No, if you use ICAP.
The processor has a by default at startup connection to ICAP, called PCAP for convenience.
That is how you may load bitstreams once the processors are up and running (on the demo boards you can map the PCAP to a /dev/mnt file in Linux, and then just pipe the file to the configuration memory).
If you are in the programmable logic, using ICAP, then no, you cannot load an entire bitstream because to instantiate and use ICAP that way uses configuration bits. You would have to create a partial bitstream that did not overwrite the ICAP interface while loading.
Austin Lesea
Principal Engineer
Xilinx San Jose
