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Sharing vivado projects

jure

Hi.

I have just finished a project for the 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6, and I wanted to share the project files on GitHub. I found that for version control projects should be saved/shared using .tcl build scripts. I have seen couple of tutorials (https://www.fpgadeveloper.com/2014/08/version-control-for-vivado-projects.html/, https://youtu.be/BXhLFecEPc8), but am unable to succsessfully rebuild the project. Firstly, the written article just seems outdated and I am unable to get things to work properly. In case of the youtube video, I am able to generate everything except the block design.

For now I will probably just use the export archive and share the archive. In case of any future work, I would like to know how to use .tcl files to generate project files, since it seems a lot more efficient. So my question is whether I should even bother learning to export using .tcl and if so how should I do it?

Best regards, Jure

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    My 5 cents:

    - Create a layout of your project in Vivado (+IP integrator as required)

    - Export project using Tcl: look a the Tcl script and clean it, e.g. paths to files, ...

    Use the exported Tcl as your template. Also, when you add ports, IPs, or modify settings, the Tcl console outputs any "click" you do on Vivado. Copy the commands to your Tcl template to keep it up-to-date.

    Look at each command on the Tcl console while you are creating your project.


    Later you can learn more advanced commands like loops to connect blocks more efficiently.



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  • 0 in reply to dramoz

    Thanks for the reply. As I mentioned in the original post, I tried doing it this way, but I am struggling to get everything working as it should. Another aspect is that modifying the .tcl is pretty tedious. Is it such that I should export the .tcl only when I change the block design?