When using a custom hardware platform, the device information is automatically extracted from the extensible platform archive. This option gives full control over the design, but also requires knowledge of hardware designer role. Choosing a custom hardware platform is useful in scenarios like:
- Custom board designs
- When the design requirements deviate from prebuilt base platform with respect to clocking strategies, external interfaces on an AMD development board
- Designs that require custom IPs added in Vivado.
Note: You can create a custom hardware platform in Vivado and use configurable example designs to quickly
create a starting design.
Once the design flow steps are completed, using a custom hardware platform design is the most flexible design flow option. The following link provides tutorials and examples for using custom hardware platforms: https://github.com/Xilinx/Vitis-Tutorials/tree/master/Developer_Contributed/01-Versal_Custom_Thin_Platform_Extensible_System.