get_example_designs - 2024.2 English

Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835)

Document ID
UG835
Release Date
2024-11-13
Version
2024.2 English

Get a list of example designs

Syntax

get_example_designs [‑regexp] [‑nocase] [‑filter <arg>] [‑quiet] [‑verbose]
    [<patterns>...]

Returns

List of design objects.

Usage

Name Description
[-regexp] Patterns are full regular expressions
[-nocase] Perform case-insensitive matching
[-filter] Filter list with expression
[-quiet] Ignore command errors
[-verbose] Suspend message limits during command execution
[<patterns>] The patterns to match against Default: * Values: The default search pattern is the wildcard *, or .* when -regexp is specified.

Categories

IPIntegrator

Description

The command returns a list of example designs available in the current release of the Vivado™ Design Suite, or returns an error if it fails.

Example designs can be opened, or instantiated into the Vivado Design Suite, onto specific target hardware devices or boards.

Arguments

-regexp - (Optional) Specifies that the search <patterns> are written as regular expressions. Both search <patterns> and -filter expressions must be written as regular expressions when this argument is used. Xilinx® regular expression Tcl commands are always anchored to the start of the search string. You can add ".*" to the beginning or end of a search string to widen the search to include a substring. See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html for help with regular expression syntax.
Note: The Tcl built-in command regexp is not anchored, and works as a standard Tcl command. For more information refer to http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/regexp.htm.

-nocase - (Optional) Perform case-insensitive matching when a pattern has been specified. This argument applies to the use of -regexp only.

-filter <args> - (Optional) Filter the results list with the specified expression. The -filter argument filters the list of objects returned by get_example_designs based on property values on the designs. You can find the properties on an object with the report_property or list_property commands. In the case of the "example design" object, "NAME", "SUPPORTED_BOARDS" and "SUPPORTED_PARTS" are some of the properties that can be used to filter results.

The filter search pattern should be quoted to avoid having to escape special characters. String matching is case-sensitive and is always anchored to the start and to the end of the search string. The wildcard “*” character can be used at the beginning or at the end of a search string to widen the search to include a substring of the property value.
Note: The filter returns an object if a specified property exists on the object, and the specified pattern matches the property value on the object. In the case of the "*" wildcard character, this will match a property with a defined value of "".
For string comparison, the specific operators that can be used in filter expressions are "equal" (==), "not-equal" (!=), "match" (=~), and "not-match" (!~). Numeric comparison operators <, >, <=, and >= can also be used. Multiple filter expressions can be joined by AND and OR (&& and ||). The following gets input pins that do NOT contain the “RESET” substring within their name:
get_pins * -filter {DIRECTION == IN && NAME !~ "*RESET*"}
Boolean (bool) type properties can be directly evaluated in filter expressions as true or not true:
-filter {IS_PRIMITIVE && !IS_LOC_FIXED}
-quiet - (Optional) Execute the command quietly, returning no messages from the command. The command also returns TCL_OK regardless of any errors encountered during execution.
Note: Any errors encountered on the command-line, while launching the command, will be returned. Only errors occurring inside the command will be trapped.
-verbose - (Optional) Temporarily override any message limits and return all messages from this command.
Note: Message limits can be defined with the set_msg_config command.

<patterns> - (Optional) Match example designs against the specified patterns. The default pattern is the wildcard '*' which gets a list of all supported example designs.

Examples

The following example returns reports the properties of each of the example designs in the current release:

foreach x [get_example_designs] {
puts "********* Design $x **************"
report_property -all $x}
Note: The reported properties include the PARTS property which lists the compatible parts for the example design.