Creating the Block Design - 2025.1 English - XD260

Vitis Tutorials: Embedded Software (XD260)

Document ID
XD260
Release Date
2025-07-31
Version
2025.1 English

The first step is to create a block design. You can create this according to your specific requirements, but here you will create a Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC based example project using a template, as explained below.

  1. On the Welcome screen, navigate to Quick Start and click Open Example Project.

    ../../../../_images/Create-Example-Project.PNG

  2. The Create Example Project wizard will be launched. Click Next.

  3. In the Select Project Template window, click Refresh to install templates.

    ../../../../_images/Install-Update_Example-Designs.PNG

  4. You will now be able to see the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Design Presets template. Select the template and click Next.

    ../../../../_images/ZynqMPSoC-Preset-Template.PNG

  5. Update the Project Name to “zcu102” and update the path.

  6. In the next window, select Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU102 Evaluation Board and click Next. Here, you can see two preset designs. Select the second option (Processing System and Programmable Logic (PS+PL) with GPIO and Block RAM) and click Finish.

    ../../../../_images/PS-PL.PNG

The block design you have created for the example project is shown in the following figure.

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