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If I spent some time thinking about it I'm sure that I could come up with other examples of how Vivado is frustrating to work with.īTW, though Quartus for Intel FPGA devices is riddled with bugs, and finding the version that works with a particular device can take hours of research it does install relatively painlessly on just about any OS and is under 8 GB.

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ISE didn't have this problem, so it's the tool software that's the issue. Vivado has messed up the FIFO IP for quite a few version now. I've had to eschew using flags and word counts for Vivado FIFO IP because they just aren't reliable. VITIS simply wasn't designed for the Zedboard. Understand that for ZYNQ development you have 2 toolchains to debug HW and SW. Who has the time for that? Certainly not Digilent, though they still sell the board. You can spend weeks trying to convert old demo projects to the newer Vivado releases. Unless you need VITIS experience I suggest that using a version of the tools that were new about the time that your platform was designed is the easiest way to get to a working project development cycle.

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ChipScope is clunky and you need a license to use it.Ĭan you do development work for the Zedboard using VITIS? I don't know because I haven't had the time to work my way through the maze.

The one thing that Vivado does improve on is the integration of the debug tools into the GUI. IMPACT can be a pain in the neck but I use the very useful Adept Utility for Windows to configure the FPGA. I haven't seen any dramatic improvement in synthesis or P&R with Vivado. In some ways ISE is easier to work with than Vivado. I have an older one had to spend some time trying to figure out what board version to choose and what the revision changes were because the Vivado installations that I have on Win10 don't support my board explicitly. One thing to you need to do is figure out if the version of your board is supported by Vivado. I've done Vivado development for that board on Win10. I would suggest that an earlier version of Vivado, say 2018.4, might be the best option for the Zedboard. ISE has bugs but not to the extent that every new version of Vivado has. I haven't tried ChipScope or IMPACT, and ISIM has issues on Win10, but on occasion ISE is the only option for some projects. But the tools needed to create a bitstream do work on WIn10. Installation wasn't straightforward for sure but that version of ISE 14.7 supports Spartan 3, unlike the archived version available from the Xilinx download site. from back when the tools installer fit one DVD. I didn't use the latest archived version of ISE 14.7 from Xilinx to install it, but used an old DVD from Xilinx. So, I've been using ISE on WIN10 for over a year for devices that aren't supported by Vivado and for the aforementioned platform.

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If anyone has discovered how to do this I'd like to know the secret. The Vivado support for PCIe simply doesn't work ( at least on Vivado 2019.1 forward ) for the XC7K325T-1FFG676 part for this board because it only has 4 transceiver lanes, because of the lanes that the board designers chose to use, and because Vivado refuses to let you select the correct GTX bank. In fact Vivado is no good for doing PCIe based designs for the NetFPGA-1G-CML board that Digilent sells. It last worked on Win 7, but that is outdated as well. Yeah, ISE is no good as it does not work on Win 10.

Sorry about typos and odd spacing (I've tried to clean it up as I type), but the laptop keyboard I'm using is not agreeing with my fingers, and I keep typing the wrong keys and extra spaces. There is a very nice Wiki page on the Diligent site that describes how to do it for the 2019 edition of the Xilinx tools, but it's out of date.Ĭan anyone offer some advice on what I should do? Should I uninstall Vivado (both the 2021.1 and 14.1 versions) and try to download and install something in-between? Unfortunately, none of the directions I've found for installing the board files work properly under this version of the tools - it seems the stuff on GitHub (XilinxBoardStore / XilinxCEDStore) are not supported (I can't get them to work following the directions I've found, at least), and when I tried editing the Vivado start-up tcl script, the XML files appear available on the Diligent site seem to be incompatible (it breaks Vivado), so I cannot seem to create a project for the ZedBoard using Vivado 2021.1.

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I was given the ZedBoard and installed the Xilinx software that came with it, but ISE 14.1 seems to have some trouble with Windows 10 (file selection dialogs don't always appear, and it can't seem to talk to the network very well), so I've installed Vivado 2021.1. I have a ZedBoard (Zynq XC7Z020) on which I wish to prototype some software on a MicroBlaze that will eventually be moved to a ZCU-102, and ultimately to a custom IO card.