Third-party board files or even Xilinx provided board files
that are not natively supported in Vivado can be downloaded from the
GitHub using the Vivado Store. To download boards click .
Figure 1. Download Board Files from GitHub
Click Install button in the left menu panel to install the selected Board in your local drive. The installed Boards are indicated with icon in the beginning of name.
Note: Some Board files are released asynchronously on GitHub,
therefore Board Store must be refreshed to access such published contents.
The first time you download the boards from the GitHub you will download the
entire repository available. Subsequent downloads will only download the boards that are
new and have not been previously downloaded. As the boards are being downloaded you will
see messages such as the following on the Tcl
Console.
INFO: [Common 17-1570] Installing object em.avnet.com:xilinx_board_store:Ultra96:1.2 from remote host https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxBoardStore.git
INFO: [Common 17-1573] Object em.avnet.com:xilinx_board_store:Ultra96:1.2 has been installed successfully.
INFO: [Common 17-1570] Installing object em.avnet.com:xilinx_board_store:picozed_7010_fmc2:1.2 from remote host https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxBoardStore.git
INFO: [Common 17-1573] Object em.avnet.com:xilinx_board_store:picozed_7010_fmc2:1.2 has been installed successfully.
INFO: [Common 17-1570] Installing object digilentinc.com:xilinx_board_store:arty:1.1 from remote host https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxBoardStore.git
INFO: [Common 17-1573] Object digilentinc.com:xilinx_board_store:arty:1.1 has been installed successfully.
INFO: [Common 17-1570] Installing object digilentinc.com:xilinx_board_store:arty-a7-100:1.0 from remote host https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxBoardStore.git
INFO: [Common 17-1573] Object digilentinc.com:xilinx_board_store:arty-a7-100:1.0 has been installed successfully.
INFO: [Common 17-1570] Installing object digilentinc.com:xilinx_board_store:arty-a7-35:1.0 from remote host https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxBoardStore.git
These boards are downloaded to the default locations which are as follows:
- On Linux -
<user home directory>/.Xilinx/Vivado/20xx.x/xhub/board_store/
- On Windows -
%APPDATA%\Roaming\Xilinx\20xx.x\xhub\board_store\
Once the boards have been download the repository path to the download location is set automatically and the downloaded boards are now visible in the Default Part page. You can then select the target board and create your project.