Compiling Hardware for Use with M-Hwcosim - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite Reference Guide: Model-Based DSP Design Using System Generator (UG958)

Document ID
UG958
Release Date
2020-11-18
Version
2020.2 English

Compiling hardware for use in M-Hwcosim follows the same flow as the typical System Generator hardware co-simulation flow. You start off with a System Generator model in Simulink, select a hardware co-simulation target in the System Generator token and click Generate. At the end of the generation, a hardware co-simulation library is created.

Among other files in the netlist directory, you can find a bit file and an hwc file. The bit file corresponds to the FPGA implementation, and the hwc file contains information required for M-Hwcosim. Both bit file and hwc file are paired by name, e.g. mydesign_cw.bit and mydesign_cw.hwc.

The hwc file specifies additional meta information for describing the design and the chosen hardware co-simulation interface. With the meta information, a hardware co-simulation instance can be instantiated using M-Hwcosim, through which you can interact with the co-simulation engine.

M-Hwcosim inherits the same concepts of ports and fixed point notations as found in the existing co-simulation block. Every design exposes its top-level ports for external access.