System Requirements

Host System Software

  • Operating System: please refer to Vivado Design Suite User Guide

  • 2021.1 or newer Xilinx Hardware Server hw_server

  • 2021.1 or newer Xilinx ChipScope Server cs_server

  • Python 3.8 or newer

  • ChipScoPy Python Package

  • ChipScoPy Examples

Note

Please see ChipScoPy Installation for a complete guide to installation.

Supported Versal-Based Boards

The example designs distributed with ChipScoPy are supported for these hardware boards:

User Designs

ChipScoPy supports user-generated designs targeting any Versal series device. To interact with a user design, first supply the PDI and LTX files to the programming and discovery routines.

The standard design flow will produce these output products for user-generated projects.

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Vivado Design Flow

Note

Certain examples may also require the “hardware hand-off” file or <project_name>.hwh from the user-generated project.