Vivado 2020 "No ARM Processor Found in Design"

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I've created a simple design in Vivado 2020.2 that consists of a Microblaze, UART, SPI and LEDs. I enabled interrupts but haven't yet utilised the triggers.: all went well and bitstream was generated, which I then exported along with the hardware.

Once exported I switched across to Vitis IDE and created an Application Project, importing my XSA hardware and selecting the 'Hello World' project. Programming the hardware also seemed to work correctly. However when I run the 'Hello World' example I get an error and I'm unsure what it relates to or how to fix it.

My target board is a Digilent Arty Z7 although my design is not utilising the Zynq.

Any suggestions on how to resolve would be very much appreciated, I can post additional info if required. I also have found only one mention of the same error when searching the internet; this was posted a few days ago and the design and error are almost identical to mine...sadly no replies to that yet, although I will watch and see.

Fred27 · Answer

The initial error message suggests that your hardware contains a MicroBlaze processor but that Vitis has been configured to compile code for the Zynq hard processor. It's difficult to diagnose any further without seeing your software setup. If it helps, I created a video walk-through of creating a MicroBlaze core in Vivado 2020.1 as part of this road test: Cmod S7: Breadboardable Spartan-7 FPGA Module - Review Obviously it's for the Cmod S7 rather than the Arty Z7 although the process should be exactly the same. The strange behaviour once you added a Zynq wrapper is something else though. I'd have expected your code to run on one of the processors at least!

Vivado 2020 "No ARM Processor Found in Design"

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