Blog # 1 - Project Description And Upgrade Installation
Blog # 2 - MiniZed Board Peripheral Configuration and Creating a Boot Image
Blog # 3 - Executing Vivado Design Suite TCL Commands
Blog # 4 - Move Data Between BRAM and DDR3 Memories
Blog # 5 - How to Enable Interrupts With MiniZed
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In this blog I am going to show you the TCL commands used in the Lesson 4 training course, and on Windows 10. I also indicate you an erratum of the publication, and some TCL commands I experienced in this lesson. MiniZed Hardware Technical Training 2021.1: Lesson 4
- The use of the "pwd" command is to show us the current directory.
- Tutorial notified us that slashes for the directories are forward slashes, not backslashes as Windows uses. I did both tests as you can see in the image above.
the "cd" command is used to change directory.
From the TCL console we can open a project as follows: open_project ./ZynqDesign.xpr
We open the block design with the following command: open_bd_design ./ZynqDesign/ZynqDesign.srcs/sources_1/bd/Z_system/Z_system.bd
A list of interfaces ports, type: get_bd_intf_ports
Create an output port for reset type: create_bd_port -dir O -type rst Reset
We can ask for help regarding any command as follows: help write_bd_tcl
Next, we’ll export the block design using this command: write_bd_tcl basic_design.tcl
If we open this file we can see that this block design encompasses all connections and IP in the design, and also the IP configurations.
Erratum
Step 13 of lesson 4 says:
This command just omits the file name. Below I show the corrected command: write_project_tcl project_setup.tcl -paths_relative_to C:/training/AvnetTTC/ZynqHW/2021_1/ZynqDesign_lab4
Other TCL command examples
Below I show you some simple commands that you can find on the official site:
- The following example validates the IPs in the current project: validate_ip -save_ip [get_ips]
- The following example verifies the bitstream on current hardware device: verify_hw_devices [current_hw_device]
- The following example returns only the version number for the software: version -short
- The following example writes both the binary and ASCII forms of the bitstream: write_bitstream -raw_bitfile C:/Data/design1
- The following example exports a CSV file from the current project: write_csv C:/Data/pinList.csv
- The following example write a debug probe file from the current design: write_debug_probes C:/Data/designProbes.ltx
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