Download bit file to Zynq from HDL Coder

Hi,

I am working with HDL Coder. How can I deploy a previously generated bitfile to my ZC706 once I have generated the code using HDL Coder. For some reason it seems like I need to rebuild the bitstream in the HDL Coder Workflow in order to re-deploy the bitfile. Can you help with this?

For instance, I power cycle the Zynq board edit my ARM code and then want to redeploy the same bitfile to the Zynq chip.

Thanks,

Answer 1

[Tao Jia]

If you know the location of your FPGA programming file, you can always use Vivado to program the FPGA. Also, there is a MATLAB utility function that can do this - run "help filProgramFPGA" in MATLAB to check it out.

Hope this helps, Tao

[Brent Jarvis]

I have begun using Vivado for this task. Thanks for the suggestion. After using the toolchain a bit more, I have realized Vivado will play a big part while implementing and deploying code/bitstreams.

[zhouwb02]

From the filProgramFPGA help,

filProgramFPGA('Xilinx Vivado', PROGRAMFILE,CHAINPOSITION)

programs Xilinx FPGA at JTAG chain position CHAINPOSITION using the

programming file PROGRAMFILE and Xilinx Vivado tool.

How to define the CHAINPOSITION value?