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Vivado's forgotten feature: The Dashboard

wolfgangfriedrich

The roadtest about my adventures in Vivado together with the Digilent ARTY S7 board continues.

 

I just re-found a feature that might help during very low level debugging and system testing: the dashboard.

 

It is accessed through the hardware manager, when connected to a board.

  1. Open the 'Hardware Manager' from the Flow Navigator panel and connect to your board. I am not sure which devices support this feature, but the Spartan7 and all Zync do.
  2. Connect to your device to establish communication between Vivado and the target.
  3. Double click the XADC to open the dashboard window.

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  4. From the '+' icon you can select the temperatures and voltage rails to be monitored.

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This opens the dashboard window and gives a nice graph. The displayed information is helpful during debug to see if any voltage rail drops during high chip activity (e.g. a RAM stress test) or any over-temperature condition that might cause instabilities.

 

Next time I am going to talk about J9 or how to implement the SDRAM interface in VHDL on the ARTY S7.

 

Cheers,

- Wolfgang.

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