Guide Program FPGA

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 Program FPGA

This guide demonstrates how to program the “Zynqberry” TE0726_M. Before you start with

this guide you should have created a project and written an application.

Since the Zynqberry board only have a clock that is dedicated to the processor we need to

start the processor in order to generate a clock signal for the logic circuit. Your will therefore

need to have Xilinx SDK installed on your computer in order to have a clock controlled

process running in your logic.

1) In the “Flow Navigator panel” under “Program and Debug” click “Generate Bitstream”

and “Yes” in the window that pops up. Vivado will then generate the bit file if you don’t

have any errors in you project.

2) Click “Cancel” to the window that pops up when your file has been generated

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3) Click “File->Export->Export Hardware…” and mark the check mark “Include bitstream”

and click “OK” on the window that pops up

4) Close Vivado and open the program “xsdk”, click “Browse” and find your “Vivado”

project and select the folder that ends with .sdk and click “OK”

5) In “SDK” click “File->New->Application Project”. Write a project name and under

“Hardware Platform” click on “new…”

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6) Give your new hardware platform a name and find the “.hdf” file in the .sdk directory for

the “Target Hardware Specifications” followed by “Finish”

7) In the “New Project” window select your new hardware platform and click “Next”

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8) Select “Hello World” project and click “Finish”

9) Connect your FPGA board to your computer and right click on your application project

and select “Run As->Launch on Hardware(System debugger). Your PS should now

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have created a clock signal for you PL.

10)In the menu bar click “Xilinx Tools->Program FPGA.

Now your program should be running on the FPGA or you are in trouble ;) It is also possible

to program your hardware in Vivado but i havn’t found out how to program the processor from

there yet.

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