Microzed development in EDK

Question

Greetings, I have a need to develop a system running on the Microzed board using older version of Xilinx ISE Design Suite(14.6, the older style EDK,ISE,PlanAhead, and SDK as opposed to Vivado).

I know most of the tutorials are focused on using Vivado and taking advantage of the "awareness" files so you are not starting from scratch...

Is there an equivalent way to import the Microzed's board info into EDK so I can just select it as my target hardware? I believe this was achieved by using *.xbd files on older Avnet boards?

Or do I need to start from scratch?

Former Member · Accepted Answer

Use the MicroZed Zynq Preset for ISE (XML) found here: http://www.zedboard.org/documentation/1519 Import the preset into your PS7 configuration in XPS: Then select the XML file downloaded: -Gary

Former Member · Answer

I used PlanAhead to build a processing sub-design and imported the MicroZed XML within XPS. Then I exited back to PlanAhead and there I right clicked on the processor sub module and did a 'Create Top HDL'. I did have to go back and change the device targeted by the top level PlanAhead project to match the MicroZed device imported in the XML (zc7z010clg400-1). Note that the package is different than the one on the 7020 device on the ZedBoard if that is where you started.

After that I built the design and exported to SDK successfully and was able to build and run a Hello World application.

Check and make sure the device and package are correct for the MicroZed device for both the processor sub-system and the top level design.

-Gary

Former Member · Answer

It turns out that I can safely ignore those hundreds of warnings because it appears to be working fine now. Strange that I got such severe sounding warnings...but oh well.

Microzed development in EDK

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