NEXYS4 board cannot be detected

[yyuan]

Hi,

I just installed vivado 2017.2 on my PC, running windows 7 Service Pack1 (64-bit). I connected my Nexys 4 board using the cable that comes with the board in the package. When I attempted to connect the board to my PC, by clicking Open Hardware Manager -> Open Target -> Auto Connect, in the Hardware window in vivado, it shows localhost(0), which means no device detected. I also get 2 warnings below:

warning: cannot open library dpcomm.dll, first required symbol ftdimgr_lock, Digilent FTDI based JTAG cables cannot be supported

warning: cannot open library djtg.dll, first required symbol DjtgGetPortCount, select Digilent JTAG cables cannot be supported

I noticed a post in a non-English Digilent forum, in which someone else was experiencing the exact same issue. Please help.

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[yyuan]

I figured out the solution. Download Digilent Adept and run it. Running this program appears to detect the NEXYS 4 board as well as doing some sort of initialization. After I did that, the board was recognized. Joy!

Download Digilent Adept from here:

http://store.digilentinc.com/digilent-adept-2-download-only/

[jpeyron]

Hi @yyuan,

Glad to hear you were able to resolve the issue!

cheers,

Jon