Creating a design project does not require the use of the Vivado IDE. The benefits of the Project Mode, such as automatic report generation, design runs infrastructure, and managed source files, are available from a Tcl script. The result of the script is a design project, which you can open in the Vivado IDE for interactive timing analysis and design exploration. Specific areas covered in this lab are:
- Creating a project and adding HDL sources.
- Adding IP sources to a project.
- Generating IP Output Products.
- Disabling IP Output Products, such as an XDC file.
- Disabling the creation of a Synthesis Design Checkpoint (DCP) file.
- Creating and launching IP design runs.
- Querying the properties of the IP.
- Updating an IP to the latest version.