get_board_parts - 2021.2 English

Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835)

Document ID

UG835

Release Date

2021-10-22

Version

2021.2 English

Get the list of board_part available in the project

Syntax

get_board_parts [‑regexp] [‑nocase] [‑latest_file_version]
    [‑latest_hw_revision] [‑filter <arg>] [‑quiet] [‑verbose]
    [<patterns>...]

Returns

List of board_part objects.

Usage

Name	Description
`[-regexp]`	Patterns are full regular expressions
`[-nocase]`	Perform case-insensitive matching
`[-latest_file_version]`	Show only latest board parts by file version
`[-latest_hw_revision]`	Show only latest board parts by board revision
`[-filter]`	Filter list with expression
`[-quiet]`	Ignore command errors
`[-verbose]`	Suspend message limits during command execution
`[<patterns>]`	Match Board Part names against patterns Default: * Values: The default search pattern is the wildcard , or . when -regexp is specified.

Description

Gets a list of available board parts in the board repository, as defined by the Board Interface files available for use by the current project or design.

The board file, board.xml located in the data/boards folder of the Vivado Design Suite installation area, stores information regarding board attributes. The board provides a representation of the overall system that the Xilinx device is a part of, and can help define key aspects of the design, such as clock constraints, I/O port assignments, and supported interfaces. You can create custom boards by defining a custom Board Interface file, as described in the Vivado Design Suite User Guide: System-Level Design Entry (UG895).

The board part provides a representation of the Xilinx device in the context of the board-level system, and is represented by the part0 component in the Board Interface file. The current_board_part command returns the board part in use by the current project. Refer to the current_board_part command for the different methods of defining the board in use.

This command returns the list of available Xilinx devices (part0) in the Board Interface files defined in the current board repository, or returns an error if it fails.

Arguments

-regexp - (Optional) Specifies that the search <patterns> are written as regular expressions. Both search <patterns> and -filter expressions must be written as regular expressions when this argument is used. Xilinx regular expression Tcl commands are always anchored to the start of the search string. You can add ".*" to the beginning or end of a search string to widen the search to include a substring. See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html for help with regular expression syntax.

Note: The Tcl built-in command regexp is not anchored, and works as a standard Tcl command. For more information refer to http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/regexp.htm.

-nocase - (Optional) Perform case-insensitive matching when a pattern has been specified. This argument applies to the use of -regexp only.

-latest_file_version - (Optional) Return the board parts defined in the latest version of the Board Interface file. There can be multiple versions of the Board Interface file. This option returns the board parts in the latest version only. Refer to the Vivado Design Suite User Guide: System-Level Design Entry (UG895) for more information on the Board Interface file.

-latest_hw_revision - (Optional) Return the board parts defined in the latest compatible hardware revision of the board represented in the Board Interface file. The board Interface file can represent multiple compatible revisions of boards. This option only returns the latest revision.

-filter - (Optional) Filter the results list with the specified expression. The -filter argument filters the list of objects returned by get_board_parts based on property values on the board parts. You can find the properties on an object with the report_property or list_property commands. Any property/value pair can be used as a filter. In the case of the board part object, "NAME", "PART_NAME", and "BOARD_NAME" are some of the properties that can be used to filter results.

The filter search pattern should be quoted to avoid having to escape special characters. String matching is case-sensitive and is always anchored to the start and to the end of the search string. The wildcard “*” character can be used at the beginning or at the end of a search string to widen the search to include a substring of the property value.

Note: The filter returns an object if a specified property exists on the object, and the specified pattern matches the property value on the object. In the case of the "*" wildcard character, this will match a property with a defined value of "".

For string comparison, the specific operators that can be used in filter expressions are "equal" (==), "not-equal" (!=), "match" (=~), and "not-match" (!~). Numeric comparison operators <, >, <=, and >= can also be used. Multiple filter expressions can be joined by AND and OR (&& and ||). The following gets input pins that do NOT contain the “RESET” substring within their name:

get_pins * -filter {DIRECTION == IN && NAME !~ "*RESET*"}

Boolean (bool) type properties can be directly evaluated in filter expressions as true or not true:

-filter {IS_PRIMITIVE && !IS_LOC_FIXED}

-quiet - (Optional) Execute the command quietly, returning no messages from the command. The command also returns TCL_OK regardless of any errors encountered during execution.

Note: Any errors encountered on the command-line, while launching the command, will be returned. Only errors occurring inside the command will be trapped.

-verbose - (Optional) Temporarily override any message limits and return all messages from this command.

Note: Message limits can be defined with the set_msg_config command.

<patterns> - (Optional) Match board parts against the specified search patterns. The default pattern is the wildcard '*' which gets a list of all board parts available for use in the project. More than one pattern can be specified to find multiple boards based on different search criteria.

Note: You must enclose multiple search patterns in braces, {}, or quotes, "", to present the list as a single element.

Examples

The following example returns the board parts matching the specified filter search pattern:

get_board_parts -filter {BOARD_NAME=~z*}

The following example returns all board parts matching the specified search patterns:

get_board_parts {*av* *kc*}