Downloading Third-Party Board Files from GitHub Using the GUI - 2021.1 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Designing IP Subsystems Using IP Integrator (UG994)

Document ID
UG994
Release Date
2021-06-16
Version
2021.1 English
Third-party board files or even Xilinx provided board files that are not natively supported in Vivado can be downloaded from the GitHub using the Vivado Store. To download boards click Tools > Vivado Store
Figure 1. Download Third-Party Board Files from GitHub

Click Install button in the left menu panel to install the selected Board in your local drive. The installed Boards are indicated with icon in the beginning of name.

The first time you download the boards from the GitHub you will download the entire repository available. Subsequent downloads will only download the boards that are new and have not been previously downloaded. As the boards are being downloaded you will see messages such as the following on the Tcl Console.
INFO: [Common 17-1570] Installing object em.avnet.com:xilinx_board_store:Ultra96:1.2 from remote host https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxBoardStore.git
INFO: [Common 17-1573] Object em.avnet.com:xilinx_board_store:Ultra96:1.2 has been installed successfully.
INFO: [Common 17-1570] Installing object em.avnet.com:xilinx_board_store:picozed_7010_fmc2:1.2 from remote host https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxBoardStore.git
INFO: [Common 17-1573] Object em.avnet.com:xilinx_board_store:picozed_7010_fmc2:1.2 has been installed successfully.
INFO: [Common 17-1570] Installing object digilentinc.com:xilinx_board_store:arty:1.1 from remote host https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxBoardStore.git
INFO: [Common 17-1573] Object digilentinc.com:xilinx_board_store:arty:1.1 has been installed successfully.
INFO: [Common 17-1570] Installing object digilentinc.com:xilinx_board_store:arty-a7-100:1.0 from remote host https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxBoardStore.git
INFO: [Common 17-1573] Object digilentinc.com:xilinx_board_store:arty-a7-100:1.0 has been installed successfully.
INFO: [Common 17-1570] Installing object digilentinc.com:xilinx_board_store:arty-a7-35:1.0 from remote host https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxBoardStore.git

These boards are downloaded to the default locations which are as follows:

  • On Linux - <user home directory>/.Xilinx/Vivado/20xx.x/xhub/board_store/
  • On Windows - %APPDATA%\Roaming\Xilinx\20xx.x\xhub\board_store\

Once the boards have been download the repository path to the download location is set automatically and the downloaded boards are now visible in the Default Part page. You can then select the target board and create your project.