Description
The hardware server manages connections to a hardware target, for instance a hardware board containing a JTAG chain of one or more AMD FPGA devices to be used for programming and debugging your FPGA design.
When you open the Hardware Manager with the open_hw command, you can
connect to a hardware server, either locally or remotely, using the
connect_hw_server command. This launches the hw_server
application, and creates a hw_server object.
Related Objects
As seen in Figure 1, hardware servers are apex objects in the Hardware Manager, managing connections to hardware targets. You can query the objects related to the hw_server:
get_hw_targets -of [get_hw_servers]Properties
You can use the report_property command to report the properties
assigned to a hw_server object. Refer to the
Vivado
Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835) for more information. The properties assigned to the hw_target object include the
following, with example values:
Property Type Read-only Visible Value
CLASS string true true hw_server
HOST string true true localhost
NAME string true true localhost
PASSWORD string true true
PORT string true true 60001
SID string true true TCP:xcoatslab-1:3121
VERSION string true true 20
To report the properties for a hw_target, you can copy and paste the following command into the Vivado Design Suite Tcl shell or Tcl Console:
report_property -all [get_hw_servers]