Lab1 of Designing Accelerators for the Zynq®︎-7000

Hi,
I am trying to run the lab1 of "Designing Accelerators for the Zynqu00AE-7000 All Programmable SoC" on a microzed board with Z7020 device on it. The labs are either for zedboard with 7020 or microzed with 7010.
So basically I am using the elf and hdf for zedboard even though the actual hardware I am programming and connected to is a microzed. I hope I'm right in doing so as this is the first time I'm working on zedboards and SDK.

I tried 2013.3 as well as 2015.4 versions of vivado and SDK. However in either case, when I run the matMult_sw_only_app using "launch on hardware (GDB)" I don't see anything in the terminal window. The board is connected fine. But I don't see any contents in the terminal updating or anything as is mentioned in the lab manuals. I tried to monitor it through the hardware manager in vivado as well but that doesn't show anything either.

Could you tell me how to debug this?

Thanks,
--Gaurav

0 bhfletcher over 9 years ago

I'm not sure what is going wrong. We recommend you use one of the boards and the exact tool version that the training originally targeted. An HDF for ZedBoard is not compatible with a MicroZed 7020. While they use the same device, other parameters are different -- the DDR3 being a major one.
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0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to bhfletcher

I tried to open the project EmbdSysAccel provided in the lab1 and re-export the hardware targetted at microzed 7020.

With vivado 2015.4 - I was able to add the board definition files for microzed 7020 and upgrade the IPs. For the two IPs that needed to be added (mmult_accel and timer_subsystem) I used the repositories in the lab3 resources. I was able to synthesize it but running into errors in the implementation stage.

With vivado 2013.3 i am not sure how to add the board definition for microzed 7020.

So basically is there a way to convert the hdf for microzed 7020 either through vivado2015 or vivado2013?
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0 bhfletcher over 9 years ago

I am not aware of anyway to convert an HDF to a different version of Vivado.
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