Changed Behavior - 2024.2 English

Vitis High-Level Synthesis User Guide (UG1399)

Document ID: UG1399
Release Date: 2024-11-13
Version: 2024.2 English

The following table specifies differences between this release and prior releases that impact behavior or flow when migrating.

Table 1. Changed Behavior Summary for Vitis Software Development Platform
Scope	Details
Vitis Unified IDE	Metadata files for the IDE have been reorganized. A new file, _ide/.wsdata/version.ini, has been introduced to label the workspace version. When an older workspace or a workspace without version.ini is opened, the IDE will prompt the user to update the workspace. The reorganization targets to help users to add workspace to source control tool easier by keeping files can be regenerated in the .wsdata folder.
Vitis Unified IDE	The Python journal file builder.py, previously located in the logs directory, has been renamed to workspace_journal.py and moved to the _ide directory. It can now be accessed from the menu under Vitis → Workspace Journal.
Vitis Unified IDE	The IDE now enables users to manage application component source code compilation settings in UserConfig.cmake. Previously, the IDE automatically set up the build list.
Vitis Unified IDE	The process name of Vitis IDE is changed from vitisng-ide to vitis-ide.
Vitis Unified IDE	The user managed flow is extended from the Explorer view to the Vitis Explorer view. Vitis Explorer can handle both the GUI managed flow and the user managed flow and provide consistent flow window support.

Table 2. Changed Behavior Summary for Vitis Accelerated Software Development
Scope	Details
Vitis Base Platforms	The VCK190 Base Platform now initiates designs using the Vivado Customizable Example Design (CED) Vitis Extensible Platform rather than building from scratch. This update aligns the Vitis platform configuration with both CED and Vitis Base Platforms. The same approach will be applied to other base platforms in future releases.