How to add custom board setting to Vivado HLS

How to add custom board setting to Vivado HLS

When we create Vivado HLS project for non-default board, in the “Device Selection Dialog”, we have to specify

• Device family
• Package type
• Speed grade

and then choose the right part:

This (cumbersome) process can be grately simplified by addng board definition in Vivado HLS config file.

Let’s take Zybo Z7-20 as an example.

All you have to do is add the following line to the file <Vivado Installation Directory>/common/config/VivadoHls_boards.xml

<board name="Zybo Z7-20" display_name="Zybo Z7 (7020)" family="zynq" part="xc7z020clg400-1"  device="xc7z020" package="clg400" speedgrade="-1" vendor="digilentinc.com" />

… and the custom setting will appear in the “Device Selection Dialog”:

• Source: Xilinx Community Forum

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