Vitis 2020.2 on the original Zybo?

[jfrenzel]

I get the impression that you can do a HW/SW co-design project on the Zybo Z7 by entering the hardware design using Vivado and then exporting to Vitis for the software, similar to the pre-2019 flow. (Please let me know if that is incorrect!)

Can you do the same with the original Digilent Zybo? (We have a lab full of the original boards.)

Thanks!

Jim

 

[JColvin]

Hi @jfrenzel,

Yes, you can do the same flow with original Zybo as well. We have a general guide on how this might be done in 2020.1 available here: https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-logic/guides/getting-started-with-ipi.

As a clarification note though (I don't know if it affects you), a number of our Pmod IPs are not working with the 2020.2 release version of Vivado; something changed in the Xilinx material and the engineer who typically maintains the Pmod IP demos hasn't gotten to debug and update them to a hierarchy structure. They still work on 2020.1 and earlier though.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
JColvin