The Vivado tools board files provides a design abstraction to capture aspects of the hardware configuration that are fixed by the SOM physical hardware design. The board files, when combined with the Vivado tools board automation, can pre-populate the MIO configuration associated with these SOM fixed peripherals:
- DDR memory interface and associated timing configuration
- QSPI non-volatile memory and associated clocking
- eMMC non-volatile memory and associated clocking
- SPI interface for a trusted platform module (TPM)
- I2C peripheral bus for SOM peripherals and extensible via carrier card design
- UART for board bring-up and software debug (assumes the carrier card pins out MIO36 and MIO37 for proper UART function)
- PMU input/output (need to check default board file configuration)
Vivado tools board files are available for each SOM on the AMD GitHub Board Store and can be installed either by default installation or via installation from the XHUB store.
Documentation on installing and using the Vivado tools board files is available in the SOM Wiki.