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Executing Vivado Design Suite TCL Commands

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Executing Vivado Design Suite TCL Commands

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.

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the "cd" command is used to change directory.

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From the TCL console we can open a project as follows: open_project ./ZynqDesign.xpr

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We open the block design with the following command: open_bd_design ./ZynqDesign/ZynqDesign.srcs/sources_1/bd/Z_system/Z_system.bd

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A list of interfaces ports, type: get_bd_intf_ports

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Create an output port for reset type: create_bd_port -dir O -type rst Reset

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We can ask for help regarding any command as follows: help write_bd_tcl

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Next, we’ll export the block design using this command: write_bd_tcl basic_design.tcl

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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.

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Erratum

Step 13 of lesson 4 says:

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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

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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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