It appears that some challengers have received their Arty S7 boards (lots of recent blogs).
Since I'm currently ruminating about an issue that I think most of us will face - I thought it would be a good topic for discussion.
These boards are 2017 vintage and the OOB example also dates to 2017. So, I think that a lot of examples that we encounter will be using earlier versions of the toolchain. If I'm not mistaken, Vitis showed up in 2019.2.
I'm thinking about which toolchain version to use. Switching toolchain versions can be a nontrivial task (especially if an OS version change is needed - I use VMs, but I don't have every flavor).
I want to use Digilent IP for setting up various MicroBlaze implementations for running PMODs.
I noticed that the latest update to the github repo appears to be for 2019.2. https://github.com/Digilent/vivado-library
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? Anyone find more recent IP?
I found this link to a guide for 2020.1, but the link to the .zip file doesn't exist. https://digilent.com/reference/programmable-logic/guides/getting-started-with-pmod-ips
Maybe I'm overthinking it and upconverting the IP won't be that difficult. Thoughts?
I wasn't going to tackle this until I get some PMODs that I ordered, but I'd be interested if anyone has already worked this out.
Ralph
