Your job for this lab is to select how you intend on working with Vivado during the semester and then do the installation for that method.

You may be uncertain which option you should choose. If so, please talk with the instructor or a TA to get your questions answered.

The various options all take different amounts of time. Options #1 and #2 likely will take 3-4 hours - most of which will be you waiting for your computer to download files. Option #3 likely will take about an hour. So, if you have not yet started you will not finish during the lab time and will need to complete this lab on your own in the coming few days.

The options are documented here along with installation instructions. This link can also be found in the lower left of the 220 wiki page and is called “Sp2020 Vivado Procedures”.

The labs are broken up into Exercises. For each exercise there will be questions in red. You are to record your answers to those in a lab notebook you keep of some kind. Then, when you are done, you go in to Learning Suite where you will find assignments with names like “Lab 1 Online Report”. You go into that assignment and there will be places for you to enter the information you were asked to collect/compute/tabulate in red here.

In addition, each lab has one or more things that you need to pass off off with a TA. This pass off will be done using Zoom. These TA passoff tasks will take two forms:

• Sometimes in the middle of the lab you will be asked to review your design or results with a TA. The purpose of these is to help ensure you are on the right track before you proceed and waste a lot of your time doing the wrong thing. They are not recorded or graded. But, since they are designed to save you lots of time, don't ignore them - they will save you!
• The end of every lab has a requirement that you pass something off with the TA. This is the “Final Passoff”. The score for it is what is recorded in the Gradebook as “Lab 1 Passoff”, for example.
• On the other hand, the things in red that you have to enter into LearningSuite will show up in Gradebook as “Lab 1 Online Report”.

Follow the instructions above for the method you have chosen.

Once you have complete the installation, you need to start up the Vivado program and take a screen shot of its startup screen. It will look something like this.

Attach a screen shot of the Vivado startup screen to LearningSuite.

Connect the FPGA board you were sent to your computer using a micro-USB cable. Now, start up Vivado again and select “Open Hardware Manager” (center of this screen.

In the screen the appears, click “Open Target” (upper middle) and then “Auto Connect”. If your board is plugged in and powered on, you will see that it has been detected as shown here (the info there will be specific to your board and may differ from what is shown).

Take and attach a screenshot showing that your board is recognized by Vivado.

How many hours did it take you to do this lab?

List the problems you encountered in completing this lab. For each, give a short explanation of what went wrong and how you fixed it.

Meet with a TA in Zoom and show him your installation via screen sharing. Answer any questions he has for you regarding it.