Vivado Notes

Note: These notes present a work in progress and may contain mistakes. Feel free to use them at your own risk.

Digilent BASYS3 Board and Xilinx Artix-7 Pin-Outs and Constraint Files

Programming the BASYS3 Board's Non-Volatile Flash Memory through Vivado

• Instructions on programming the non-volatile SPI Flash memory using Vivado's Hardware manager.

• This extremely useful function can be used to build and customize standalone applications on the BASYS3 boards which will always start on power up without the aid of a PC.

Programming the Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) on the BASYS3 Board using the XADC Wizard

• General information about the pin-outs for the individual ADC channels

• Instructions on using XADC Wizard and Verilog to perform single and dual channel input, using the independent, sequencer and simultaneous ADC mode and various trigger modes

• Sample programs for each input mode

Xilinx Vivado Design Suite 15.1

• Installation Instructions including Board Files for BASYS3

• UCF Notation Issues

Xilinx Vivado Design Suite 16.1 and Embedded Processing

• Embedded Microblaze processor with BASYS3 boards using SDK

• Creating a simply UART "hello world" terminal program

• Uses Vivado Microblaze MCS with a 1 msec Fixed Timer Interrupt

• Not Using Vivado's block design; instead creates an instantiation template and UCF files.

Xilinx Vivado Design Suite 16.1 and Embedded Processing Using Microblaze MCS and Block Design

• By using Vivado's Block feature, Vivado automatically creates all the (Verilog) code and wires the connections and also the pin numbers.

• Example works with the traditional Microblaze MCS microprocessor and BASYS3 and reads switches into GPIO and sends them through microprocessor to LEDs.

Xilinx Vivado Design Suite 16.2 and Embedded Processing Using Microblaze and Block Design with BASYS3

• These designs use the full blown Microblaze microprocessor with an AXI interface.