Eclyse Z7 and Vivado

[Bryan2]

Upon purchasing an Eclypse Z7 Dev board will I be able to access and program all features of the board using the free version of Xilinx Vivado tools, including DSP slices and C language?

 

[zygot]

16 minutes ago, Bryan2 said:

Upon purchasing an Eclypse Z7 Dev board will I be able to access and program all features of the board using the free version of Xilinx Vivado tools, including DSP slices and C language?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer:

The Zynq 7020 series PL and PS development tools, used on the Eclypse-Z7 and Zedboard,  have been supported on the free versions of Vivado tools forever; no license required. Vivado will allow you to do anything with the PL that you could want. As to access to 'all features of the board" this depends on how much effort you are willing to invest due to the board design and supporting code and code distribution method.

You can figure this out for yourself by using whatever version of Vivado. at least form 2019.1, you have and see if you can build the hardware demos and software application demos from the sources. You don't need a target to do that successfully.

Having access to all of the board features and being able to do whatever you want might not be the same thing in practical terms. This is a complicated product.