Working with a Revision Control System - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Design Flows Overview (UG892)

Document ID
UG892
Release Date
2021-02-12
Version
2020.2 English

Many design teams use source management systems to store various design configurations and revisions. There are multiple commercially available systems, such as Revision Control System (RCS), Concurrent Versions System (CVS), Subversion (SVN), ClearCase, Perforce, Git, BitKeeper, and many others. The Vivado tools can interact with all such systems. The Vivado Design Suite uses and produces files throughout the design flow that you may want to manage under revision control.

Working with revision control software is simple when using the Non-Project mode. The designer checks out the needed source files into a local directory structure. The sources are then instantiated into a top-level design to create the design. New source files might also need to be created and read into the design using various read_* Tcl commands. The design files are passed to the Vivado synthesis and implementation tools. However, the source files remain in their original locations. The checked-out sources can be modified interactively, or with Tcl commands during the design session using appropriate code editors. Source files are then checked back into the source control system as needed. Design results, such as design checkpoints, analysis reports, and bitstream files, can also be checked in for revision management. For more information on working with revision control software, see Source Management and Revision Control Recommendations.

Video: For information on best practices when using revision control systems with the Vivado tools, see the Vivado Design Suite QuickTake Video: Using Vivado Design Suite with Revision Control.