I have not been able to program anything on my ARTY board. I have re-installed Vivado 17.2 several times to make sure the "cable drivers" were installed. I am running the non-HLS version of Vivado 17.2.There is talk about this plug-in tool on the website:
http://store.digilentinc.com/digilent-plugin-for-xilinx-tools-download-only/
It implies that it allows Xilinx software tools to directly access Digilent USB-JTAG circuitry across Xilinx tool versions 11, 12, 13, and 14. So does that mean that newer versions of the Xilinx software tools (Vivado 17.2 lets say) will not drive any of the “Digilent USB-JTAG circuitry”? I assume that all the newer boards like Arty, Arty Z7, and Arty S7 also have this “Digilent USB-JTAG circuitry”. Or is this done differently?
Then as a prerequisite to this install is to install “Adept 2”. https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/software/digilent-plugin-xilinx-tools/start
This says it’s supported by Xilinx iMPACT (12.x, 13.x, 14.x only), Chipscope Pro, Xilinx Microprocessor Debugger (XMD), and EDK Software Development Kit (12.x, 13.x, 14.x only).What does this do?Then there is there is the driver for virtualizing the serial port which is part of the “Digilent USB-JTAG circuitry”. http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm Can someone please tell me which of these are necessary to get Vivado 17.2 to talk to the Arty board? Can someone please tell me which order these have to be installed?
Thanks everyone...
Running:
Win7 Professional.
In particular, I cannot see the Arty board when I open the hardware manager in Vivado 17.2