BASYS3 connection issues

[jimge]

Hi all -

I've searched through old threads and see some posts about this issue, but nothing in them has worked for me.

I have a BASYS3 board, and I can't get Vivado to see it. I've tried on both Ubuntu and Windows 10. I'm trying to follow the simple LED tutorial on the Digilent web site. Here's what I've tried so far:

- Made sure board is jumpered for JTAG and powered up

- Made sure drivers were installed (manually went in and ran the batch files in cable_drivers/nt64 and ensured that both the pcusb and Digilent drivers successfully installed) and rebooted

- Made sure the Basys3 board was copied over into board_files, shows up in the UI, and is the selected hardware for the project

When I bring up hardware manager with the board plugged in and run auto connect, all I see is the local host server node with no devices under it. Running refresh_hw_server tells me no hardware targets are connected to the machine.

Anyone have other ideas?

Thanks!

 

EDIT: Solved. Helps to use a USB cable that isn't power-only.

 

 

 

[jpeyron]

Hi @jimge,

Welcome to the Digilent Forums!

Glad to hear that the Basys 3 is working. Thank you for sharing what you needed to do to resolve the issue.

cheers,

Jon