Digilent FPGA Boards Support for Vivado Vitis

[mehmet]

Hi. I want use my Nexys Video board in Vitis platform. I could not find pre-defined platform of Nexys Video to directly plug-in and use some UART C comands as test. Could you guide me for this? Am I have to create an xsa file from Vivado always or is there something to do? Because I saw boards file in Xilinx/Vitis path. And I saved Digilent board files to that path just like Vivado board definition. 

[Niță Eduard]

Hello @mehmet,
Vitis does not come with example hardware platform for our boards by default. If you want to reuse the platform multiple times and not have to search for it in Vitis every time, you can add it to Xilinx\Vitis\<your_version>\data\embeddedsw\lib\fixed_hwplatforms. For example, I added a platform named system_wrapper.xsa to the folder and it appeared as in the photo listed below.

If you want to try out some existing demos for the Nexys Video that make use of the Microblaze, you can check out these:
https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-logic/nexys-video/demos/hdmi
https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-logic/nexys-video/demos/axi-ps2
https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-logic/nexys-video/demos/dma-audio
 

If you want to make your own Microblaze project using the Nexys Video, you can follow this tutorial
https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-logic/guides/getting-started-with-ipi

Best wishes,
Eduard