rules_vivado

Provides Bazel rules for Xilinx Vivado.

Usage

WORKSPACE

To incorporate rules_vivado into your project copy the following into your WORKSPACE file.

load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")

http_archive(
    name = "rules_vivado",
    # See release page for latest version url and sha.
)

load("@rules_vivado//vivado:direct_repositories.bzl", "rules_vivado_direct_deps")
rules_vivado_direct_deps()

load("@rules_vivado//vivado:indirect_repositories.bzl", "rules_vivado_indirect_deps")
rules_vivado_indirect_deps()

Rules

• vivado_bitstream - Creates a bitstream from a module and constraints.
• vivado_load - Creates an executable to load a bitstream onto a FPGA.
• vivado_config_memory - Creates a configuration memory file from a bitstream.
• vivado_flash - Creates an executable to load a configuration memory file to flash.
• vivado_project - A macro that ties the above rules together to create .bit, .load, .bin, and .flash targets in a single invocation. This is suitable for most common use cases.

See examples/hello_world/BUILD for example targets for a Digilent Arty A7-35T development board.

Vivado Server

rules_vivado works by running the Vivado IDE in Tcl mode as a server (vivado_server.py). This is advantageous as Vivado takes several (~8 on development machine) seconds to start up. The server must be running before building or running any rules_vivado targets:

bazel run @rules_vivado//vivado/tools:vivado_server

By default vivado_server.py assumes the vivado executable is availabe on the current $PATH. To provide an explicit path use the --exec_path option:

bazel run @rules_vivado//vivado/tools:vivado_server -- --exec_path=/path/to/vivado

Vivado Client

The client (vivado_client.py) provides a simplified command line interface to the synthesize, place, route, and program workflow. The client communicates to the server through sockets. The client is invoked automatically by rules_vivado to build and run the associated targets, but can be invoked directly for other use cases:

bazel run @rules_vivado//vivado/tools:vivado_client -- command [options]