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Vivado Design Suite Tutorial: Creating and Packaging Custom IP (UG1119)
Document ID
UG1119
Release Date
2026-07-21
Version
2026.1 English
  1. From the AMD Vivado™ IDE Getting Started page, select Create Project to create an empty Vivado project.

    A new or existing project is required to creating and packaging a custom IP. The project information is used for populating certain fields in the Package IP window.

  2. Click Next at the New Project wizard dialog box.
  3. In the Project Name page, as shown in the following figure, set the following options for the project location:
    Project name
    project_lab2
    Project location
    <Extract_Dir>/lab_2
  4. Click Next.
  5. Select RTL Project as the Project Type and Do not specify sources at this time.
  6. Click Next.
  7. In the Default Part dialog box, select the xc7k70tfbg484-2 part, and click Next.

    For this lab, you select an AMD Kintex™ 7 device. This device family is used for the initial compatibility of the custom IP.

  8. Click Finish to close the New Project Summary page, and create the project.

    The Vivado IDE opens project_lab2, with the default layout.