Vivado Version 2014.4 and Earlier Board File Installation (Legacy)

Board Files

This guide will help you obtain Vivado Board Files for the Nexys 4, Nexys 4 DDR, Basys 3, Arty, Nexys Video, and Zybo FPGA Boards.

• Xilinx Vivado 2014.4 or earlier.

Follow this Wiki guide on how to install and activate Vivado on your PC.Installing Vivado

After installing Vivado, the default installation directory on your drive will contain a folder calledboard_parts. If Vivado is installed in the C drive ( usually recommended ), then theboard_partsfolder can be found here:C:\Xilinx\Vivado\201X.X\data\boards.

By default this folder contains XML files for different FPGA boards manufactured by Xilinx.

XML files define different interfaces on the board. Interfaces such as Slide Switches, Push Buttons, LEDs, USB-UART, DDR Memory, Ethernet etc.

Digilent has created XML files for the Artix 7 FPGA boards:

• Basys 3
• Nexys 4
• Nexys 4 DDR
• Arty
• Nexys Video
• Zybo

在阿喜GPIOIP customization window, you will be able to assign different interfaces that are available on your selected board to a specificGPIOIP block.

Download and extract this Zip file:https://github.com/Digilent/vivado-boards/archive/master.zip
You can also check out the repository for the board files on github locatedhere

This zip file will contain a folder calledboard_parts. Save this in your user documents folder. We will copy thisboard_partsfolder, navigate to theboard_partsfolder inside the Vivado Installation directory, and merge them both.

• Copy the contents of theold/board_partsfolder
• Navigate to theboard_partsfolder in the Vivado Installation directory (C:\Xilinx\Vivado\201X.X\data\boards\board_parts)
• Paste the contents into the board_parts folder (Merge the artix7 folders)
• Restart Vivado

The newly added files will each contain a sub-folder for the current board revision. This sub-folder contains the respective XML files for each FPGA board.

The sub-folder for thenexys4_ddrwill contain an additional file calledmig.prjwhich is the Xilinx Memory Interface Generator description file for customizing the DDR2 component on theNexys 4 DDR.

You are now ready to start a new IP Integrator based Vivado project for the Digilent Nexys 4, Nexys 4 DDR and Basys 3 FPGA Boards.