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Hardware Handover

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I've been following some tutorials that use Vivado to create the hardware configuration for a Zedboard and then use "Launch SDK" from Vivado to launch Eclipse which automatically imports some settings for me. I then continue development in the software realm.  That's all good. 

But if there were a hardware engineer that does the hardware design in Vivado and a software engineer is suppose to take over from there and develop software, are there some well-defined artifacts that can be transferred and imported so that it would be as if "Launch SDK" was used from within the Vivado project?

What exactly would those artifacts be and how would the software engineer import into Xilinx SDK (without going through Vivado)?

Thank you for any help.

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    The handover occurs when you 'Export' your hardware from Vivado. The hardware engineer would complete his design in Vivado, including generating a bitstream if needed, and then he would select the 'Export' > 'Export Hardware' option from 'File' on the Vivado toolbar.

    He can elect to export to a directory within his project or to another location. In the current version of Vivado you will get a 'system.hdf' file as well as a ps7_init.tcl (for JTAG configuration), ps7_init.c, ps7_init.h, ps7_init.html files and any associated .bit files. In earlier versions of Vivado there was a 'system.xml' file rather than a 'system.hdf' file.

     

    You should be able to create, load, debug, and run software applications from the SDK using just the files passed along in the Export operation.

     

    You might want to take a look at our Developing ZynqRegistered-7000 All Programmable SoC Software (Vivado 2013.3) Speedway workshop for examples on importing these hardware files into SDK as well as archiving and exporting SDK projects.

     

    -Gary

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    The handover occurs when you 'Export' your hardware from Vivado. The hardware engineer would complete his design in Vivado, including generating a bitstream if needed, and then he would select the 'Export' > 'Export Hardware' option from 'File' on the Vivado toolbar.

    He can elect to export to a directory within his project or to another location. In the current version of Vivado you will get a 'system.hdf' file as well as a ps7_init.tcl (for JTAG configuration), ps7_init.c, ps7_init.h, ps7_init.html files and any associated .bit files. In earlier versions of Vivado there was a 'system.xml' file rather than a 'system.hdf' file.

     

    You should be able to create, load, debug, and run software applications from the SDK using just the files passed along in the Export operation.

     

    You might want to take a look at our Developing ZynqRegistered-7000 All Programmable SoC Software (Vivado 2013.3) Speedway workshop for examples on importing these hardware files into SDK as well as archiving and exporting SDK projects.

     

    -Gary

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