Vivado Tutorial

Vivado Tutorial: How To Create Your First Vivado Project

Vivado has a steep learning curve, not to mention it is intimidating at first. However, the rewards are worth the effort. After all, Vivado is used by many companies to create their hardware designs.

To get started with Vivado, you need to know the basics of how it works and what it does for you. This series of tutorials will walk you through the process of creating your first Vivado project from start to finish. The tutorials will cover topics like getting started with Vivado, designing your clock signal, and writing your RTL code. You’ll also get an overview of some best practices in documentations and schematics design. These three parts will teach you everything you need to know about designing your own hardware

Introduction

As you may know, Vivado is a tool used for designing and programming embedded systems. Vivado is used by many companies to create their hardware designs.

To get started with Vivado, you need to know the basics of how it works and what it does for you. This series of tutorials will walk you through the process of creating your first Vivado project from start to finish. The tutorials will cover topics like getting started with Vivado, designing your clock signal, and writing your RTL code. You’ll also get an overview of some best practices in documentations and schematics design. These three parts will teach you everything you need to know about designing your own hardware design.

Getting Started with Vivado

Vivado is a logic synthesis software that is used for designing, simulating, implementing, and verifying hardware designs. It makes the process of creating hardware much more efficient by automating many of the tasks that would otherwise be done manually. Vivado is an indispensable tool for any hardware engineer.

The tutorials in this series will help you get started designing your own hardware in Vivado. You’ll learn how to get started with Vivado, design your clock signal, and write RTL code. We’ll also cover some best practices in documentations and schematics design.

Designing Your Clock Signal

In this tutorial, we’ll be talking about how to design a clock signal for your hardware. This will be a very high-level overview. Vivado has a lot of documentation on the clock tree generation process, if you want to learn more.

Vivado can take a lot of HDL code, convert it into a netlist, and then translate it into a logic-level design. In order to build your design, you need to make decisions about what components to include in your design and how they should be connected together.

In Vivado, you can build your design from scratch or use a pre-built library. For this tutorial, we’ll be building a design from scratch. You should start by creating a new project and then importing a user design.

Once you have that done, it’s time to start designing your clock signal. The first step is to create the clock tree. Select the “Clocks” tab and then select “Create Clock Tree” from the menu. You should now see the following window:

In the “Clock Tree Editor” window, create a new clock tree using the “Create Clocks from Schematics”

Writing RTL Code

RTL is the representation of the logic of your design. It is a hardware description language that gives Vivado a blueprint of the design. In this tutorial, we'll walk through some best practices in designing RTL, including but not limited to how to use Vivado HLS, how to design your RTL for synthesis, and how to create constraints.

In order to write RTL in Vivado, you need to know four things:

• What input and output signals you need

• What blocks you’ll need for your design

• What the clock frequency is

• What constraints need to be set

For more on RTL, be sure to check out this post.

Documenting Your Project

Documentation is a must if you want to have a successful project. In fact, it may be one of the most important things you do as a designer. Documentation will save you a lot of time as you develop your project, so it’s worth the extra effort to make sure everything is documented properly.

Recording your design process as you go along is a great way to create a successful documentation strategy. As you’re building your design, take a few minutes to write down what you’ve done and what you’re doing next. This will help you follow your own thought process and see what you need to do next.

You should also document the inputs and outputs of your design, as well as any assumptions or constraints that could affect your design. This will help other people who work with your design to know how to use it correctly and make changes, if needed.

Documenting can be daunting. But with these tips, you’ll be able to create the best documentation for your project and make it through Vivado with ease!

Schematics Design

In the scope of a Vivado design project, a schematic is a schematic capture document. This document is used to design the layout of the board and the connections between the components.

In a schematic, there are two main features you need to be aware of:

- Connections between components. These are designated using wires.

- The component placement. These are designated using pins.

For each connection, you will need to set the following information on the wire:

- Position of the wire relative to the component.

- The width of wire segment.

- The type of wire segment, if applicable.

- For 3D designs, the thickness of the wire segment.

If you are not sure how to set these parameters, Vivado has some preset values that you can use. You can find these in the “Create Wire” window on the right hand side of your screen.

Conclusion

If you want to stop using the same chip for your projects, learn how to create your own hardware. Vivado has a steep learning curve, but the rewards are worth the effort. After all, Vivado is used by many companies to create their hardware designs.

To get started with Vivado, you need to know the basics of how it works and what it does for you. This series of tutorials will walk you through the process of creating your first Vivado project from start to finish. The tutorials will cover topics like getting started with Vivado, designing your clock signal, and writing your RTL code. You’ll also get an overview of some best practices in documentations and schematics design. These three parts will teach you everything you need to know about designing your own hardware.