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FPGA tools on LISP (2428)

Vivado and Vitis is installed locally on the computers in LISP. To launch Vivado go to Applications->Education-> Vivado <or> Vitis IDE (respectively)

Alternatively, you can find it by searching for apps (Windows key):

Launch in terminal

Launching the applications is done by entering the following commands in the terminal:

Questa with GUI:

vsim

Vivado with GUI:

vivado

Vlog (terminal only):

vlog

Vcom (terminal only):

vcom

Help:

<command> -h

FPGA tools on Linux

Expect changes to Xilinx Vivado 2019.2 shortly

First time initialization On other computers than the once situated at LISP please follow the following guide:

cd 
nano .bashrc

Append the following lines to the end of the .bashrc file:

# Questa 10.6c
export LM_LICENSE_FILE=5370@lisens.ifi.uio.no
export PATH=$PATH:/projects/nanus/eda/Mentor/2017_2018/Questa/questasim/bin

# Modelsim library 
export MODELSIM=/projects/robin/CADlib/modelsimCADLIB.ini

# Vivado 2019.1 64-bit version
if ! [ -x "$(command -v vivado)" ]; then
  source /projects/robin/programs/Vivado/2019.1/settings64.sh
  export PATH=$PATH:/projects/robin/programs/Vivado/2019.1/bin
fi

After you have added the latter and saved the .bashrc file, restart the terminal.

Digilent Adept on Linux

Digilent Adept to program the Atlys board can be obtained from the Digilent website.

Note that some Xilinx scripts require GNU BASH. Ubuntu (and possibly others) come with DASH. Disable DASH by reconfiguring it:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

Note that the tools available on Windows, such as Xilinx ISE/PlanAhead and Modelsim are not supported by drift on Linux.

To enable autocompletion and history in XMD:

rlwrap xmd

License server

Licenses can be checked out from lisens.ifi.uio.no:

export LM_LICENSE_FILE=5370@lisens.ifi.uio.no

On Windows:

setx LM_LICENSE_FILE 5370@lisens.ifi.uio.no

Academic Xilinx FPGA tools

Python interface to Xilinx/EDK MHS: https://github.com/EPiCS/reconos/tree/master/tools

Bitstream Intepretation Library (Virtex5): https://github.com/florianbenz/bil

DeBit: http://code.google.com/p/debit/

TORC: http://torc-isi.sourceforge.net/

ReconOS: http://www.reconos.de